Mark E. Neely Jr.

Mark E. Neely, Jr., American historian, author, and academic

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Born: November 10, 1944
Age in 2026: 82
Zodiac sign: Scorpio
Birth year: 1944

About Mark E. Neely Jr.

Mark E. Neely Jr. is an American historian best known as an authority on the U.S. Civil War in general and Abraham Lincoln in particular. Yale's Graduate School awarded him a Wilbur Cross Medal in 1995. Neely is best known for his 1991 book The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, which won both the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 1992 Bell I.

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Mark E. Neely Jr. timeline

1991Neely is best known for his 1991 book The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties, which won both the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for History and the 1992 Bell I.
1995Yale's Graduate School awarded him a Wilbur Cross Medal in 1995.

The world when Mark E. Neely Jr. was born

Mark E. Neely Jr. was born in 1944. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1944

#1 song"Swinging on a Star" – Bing Crosby
Top movieGoing My Way
Best-selling bookStrange Fruit – Lillian Smith

Headlines and milestones

Major sports momentGreen Bay Packers win NFL Championship
Top headlineD-Day invasion of Normandy on June 6
Technology milestoneHarvard Mark I computer begins operations
Defining fadBobby socks
Notable inventionKidney dialysis machine
World population2.39 billion

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderFranklin D. Roosevelt
Sports championSt. Louis Cardinals (World Series)
U.S. population138.4M

1944 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Mark E. Neely Jr.'s birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure	1944	2026
Gas	$0.21	$3.45/gal
Average home	$5,800	$435,000
Average income	$4,200	$67,500
Minimum wage	$0.30	$7.25/hr (federal)
Movie ticket	$0.27	$11.95
Postage stamp	$0.03	$0.73
Population	138.4M	341 million

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