James H. Madison

James H. Madison is the Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History and former chair of the Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Among his publications are The Indiana Way: A State History and Eli Lilly: A Life. His new book, A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America, was published by St. Martin's Press in fall, 2001.

At Indiana University Bloomington, Jim Madison teaches the freshman introductory course in United States history, a course in Indiana history, and two courses on World War II. In 1994, the University awarded Professor Madison its Sylvia E. Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award. He has also taught, as a Fulbright Professor, at Hiroshima University, Japan, and at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England. In 2001 the Organization of American Historians named Professor Madison a Distinguished Lecturer. He is the recipient also of the Indiana Historical Society's Hoosier Historian Award and has been a fellow at Harvard University, the Newberry Library, and the Huntington Library.