A U.S. Army officer has been hired to be the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s military historian thanks to a gift from the late author Stephen Ambrose.
Ambrose donated about $500,000 to the university before his death in 2002 to endow a professorship of military history.
The historian who wrote “Band of Brothers” and other books named the professorship in part for his mentor, former UW-Madison professor William Hesseltine.