Editing Stephen E. Ambrose (section)

===Academic positions===
Ambrose was a history professor from 1960 until his retirement in 1995. From 1971 onward, he was a member of the University of New Orleans faculty, where he was named the Boyd Professor of History in 1989, an honor given only to faculty who attain "national or international distinction for outstanding teaching, research, or other creative achievement".<ref name="AHA" /><ref>"Boyd Professors," Louisiana State System [http://www/lsusystem.edu/index.php/system-office/academic-affairs/boyd-professors/]{{dead link|date=June 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=no}}. retrieved March 4, 2014</ref> During the 1969–1970 academic year, he was the [[Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History]] at the [[Naval War College]]. While teaching at [[Kansas State University]] as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of War and Peace during the 1970–1971 academic year, Ambrose participated in heckling of Richard Nixon during a speech the president gave on the KSU campus. Given pressure from the KSU administration and having job offers elsewhere, upon finishing out the year Ambrose offered to leave and the offer was accepted.<ref name="ISA" /><ref>Alan Brinkley, [http://www.newyorkbooks.com/articles/archives/1987/jul/16/the-best-man/ "The Best Man"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528203519/https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1987/07/16/the-best-man/ |date=May 28, 2020 }}, ''New York Times Review of Books'', July 16, 1987.</ref> His opposition to the Vietnam War<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ambrose |first1=Stephen E. |title=To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian |date=2002 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-0275-6 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n2J675woMLwC&pg=PA126 }}</ref> stood in contrast to his research on "presidents and the military at a time when such topics were increasingly regarded by his colleagues as old fashioned and conservative."<ref>{{cite news |title=Historian Stephen Ambrose Dead At 66 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/historian-stephen-ambrose-dead-at-66/ |work=CBS News |agency=Associated Press |date=October 13, 2002 }}</ref> Ambrose also taught at [[Louisiana State University]] (assistant professor of history; 1960–1964) and [[Johns Hopkins University]] (associate professor of history; 1964–1969). He held visiting posts at [[Rutgers University]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and a number of European schools, including [[University College Dublin]], where he taught as the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History.<ref name="SEAB" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Mary Ball Washington Professorship of American History |url=https://www.ucd.ie/history/about/maryball/ |website=UCD School of History |access-date=July 21, 2020 |archive-date=August 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807123433/https://www.ucd.ie/history/about/maryball/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

He founded the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans in 1989 with, "The mission of the Eisenhower Center is the study of the causes, conduct, and consequences of American national security policy and the use of force as an instrument of policy in the twentieth century."<ref>Eisenhower Center D-Day Collection, Special Collections, University of New Orleans [http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/inventories/218.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412231234/http://library.uno.edu/specialcollections/inventories/218.htm|date=April 12, 2013}}</ref> He served as its director until 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uno.edu/cola/history/eisenhower-center/|title=Eisenhower Center – University of New Orleans|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006150923/http://www.uno.edu/cola/history/eisenhower-center/|archive-date=October 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The center's first efforts, which Ambrose initiated, involved the collection of oral histories from World War II veterans about their experiences, particularly any participation in D-Day. By the time of publication of Ambrose's ''D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II,'' in 1994, the center had collected more than 1,200 oral histories.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Trevelyan |first1=Raleigh |author-link1=Raleigh Trevelyan |title=Telling It Like It Was |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/11/22/specials/ambrose-dday.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 29, 1994 }}</ref> Ambrose donated $150,000 to the Center in 1998 to foster additional efforts to collect oral histories from World War II veterans.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Stephen |last1=Ambrose |title=Writer Pleas for Local D-Day Museum Support |work=New Orleans Times-Picayune |date=August 7, 1998 }}</ref>