Cooper Wingert, Harrisburg historian, has three nationally published books by age 15
http://blog.pennlive.com/gettysburg-150 ... _hist.html (http://blog.pennlive.com/gettysburg-150/2013/06/cooper_wingert_harrisburg_hist.html)
QuoteThere's often a skeptical scrinch of the nose and a bit of raised eyebrow when people hear that the definitive history of Harrisburg's experience during the Civil War has been written by a 14-year-old - just enough to indicate while the fact is surprising, even fascinating, the history's probably less than serious.
Cooper Wingert, who just turned 15, is used to that. He got it a lot when he first began to self-publish local histories, but now that three of his titles have been published nationally, he gets it much less.
"The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign's Northernmost Reaches" was published by The History Press last year, followed this April by "Emergency Men!: The 26th Pennsylvania Volunteer Militia and the Gettysburg Campaign" and "Harrisburg and the Civil War: Defending the Keystone of the Union."
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Gotdamn whippersnappers!
I better keep this quiet or my parents will really be on my back about wasting my history degree,
A lot of people call themselves historians when in fact they are history revisionists painting us as a 'Christian nation®'.. I wonder if he fits in that bunch or is an actual historian..