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RONALD
RIETVELD, Fullerton, has been a Professor of History at
California State University, Fullerton since 1969. He holds an A.B. from
Wheaton College (Wheaton , Illinois, 1959), a B. D. magna cum laude from
Bethel Theological Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962), and an A.M. and Ph.D.
from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana, 1964, 1967). He was an
assistant professor of History at Wheaton College, his alma Mater, before
coming to Fullerton. He teaches 19th century American History
(Civil War, Lincoln, Reconstruction), and courses on Church History and
American Religious History at CSUF. He has been a student of Lincoln since
the age of fourteen, when he discovered the last photograph of Lincoln in 1952
in the Nicolay papers of the Illinois State Historical Library. From 1981 to
1984, he served as an Academic Advisor to the White House Speech-writing Staff
under President Ronald Reagan. He continues to lecture and write extensively
on Lincoln and the American Civil War and is currently serving as a member of
the Historical Advisory and Content Team for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum to be completed in 2002 and 2005 in Springfield, Illinois.
In addition, Dr. Rietveld is also currently serving as an advisor to the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission which will establish the 200th
celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday in 2009. Dr. Rietveld has been a member of
the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton since 1969.
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