Professor of History Emeritus, California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, California
Ronald Rietveld has been a Professor of History at California State University, Fullerton since 1969. He holds an A.B. from Wheaton College (Wheaton, IL - 1959), a B. D. magna cum laude from Bethel Theological Seminary (St. Paul, MN - 1962), and an A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana - 1964 & 1967). Prior to joining CSUF, he was an assistant professor of History at Wheaton College.
At CSUF, Dr. Rietveld teaches nineteenth century American History (Civil War, Lincoln, Reconstruction), and courses on Church History and American Religious History. He has been a student of Lincoln since the age of fourteen, when he discovered the last photograph of Lincoln in 1952 in the Nicolay papers of the Illinois State Historical Library. From 1981 to 1984, he served as an Academic Advisor to the White House Speech-writing Staff under President Ronald Reagan. He continues to lecture and write extensively on Lincoln and the American Civil War and is currently serving as a member of the Historical Advisory and Content Team for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to be completed in 2002 and 2005 in Springfield, Illinois. In addition, he currently serves as an advisor to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Dr. Rietveld has been a member of the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton since 1969.
Contact Information:
Telephone: (714) 278-3862
Fax: (714) 278-2101
E-mail: Ronald Rietveld
Mailing Addresses:
Dr. Ronald D. Rietveld
Professor of History Emeritus
Department of History, P.O. Box 34080
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834
or from September thru January:
Dr. Ronald D. Rietveld
520 Madison Street
Pella, IA 50219
Willing to Travel? Yes
Fee for Services? Yes (to cover expenses)
Lectures Offered:
Lincoln Triumphant: From Crisis to Victory, 1864-1865
Discovering the Last Lincoln Photograph
Lincoln's View of the Founding Fathers
The Education of Abraham Lincoln
The Lincoln White House
Lincoln's Religious Faith
Lincoln's Search for the Will of God
Abraham Lincoln's George Washington
Abraham Lincoln's Thomas Jefferson
Other Programs Offered:
Media Interview
Writing for Newspapers/Magazines
Writing for Scholarly Publications
