Prof. Dan Monroe, Ph.D.

Dan Monroe is Chair of the Department of History at Millikin University in Illinois. He is the author of three books: The Republican Vision of John Tyler (2003), At Home with Illinois’ Governors: A Social History of the Illinois Executive Mansion (2002), and, with co-author Bruce Tap, Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary (2005). He received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His honors and awards include the Griswold Distinguished Professor of History at Millikin, and more recently, he was named 2013 Misher Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.