Bio. for Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D.

Phillip Thomas Tucker, Ph.D., is the award-winning author of nearly 65 groundbreaking books in the field of history.

Tucker has become America's leading "New Look" Historian by presenting so many new views and fresh perspectives about key moments in American history in scores of books. The author has specialized in many fields of history, especially Women's history and black history, while also illuminating dramatic turning point moments in American history, from George Washington's Crossing of the Delaware to unique aspects of twentieth century history. Throughout his career, Dr. Tucker has focused on some of the most forgotten and overlooked aspects of the American experience in his scores of groundbreaking books. He has also illuminated some of the most important moments in the annals of American history with new insights and fresh perspectives. Most importantly, Tucker has written history in a vivid and lively way that has allowed readers to feel that they are present at some of the key turning point moments in history. In his well-researched corrective narratives for today's readers and in the Mythbusting tradition, he has most often overturned myths and misconceptions that have long been perpetuated by traditional historians of the old school. In more than a dozen groundbreaking biographies, this award-winning author has given great credit to long-overlooked individuals, men and women, who have deserved recognition for their key contributions in the making of America. In focusing on key turning point moments in American history and presenting corrective analysis combined with fresh perspectives, Tucker has bestowed new meaning to some of the most dramatic events in America's story . Tucker earned his Ph.D. in American history from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, in May 1990 . For more than two decades, he then served as a Department of Defense civilian historian mostly in the Washington, D.C. area. The author now lives in Central Florida, where he writes full-time.