1. Stephen E. Ambrose Plagiarism Case
By Group 10
Jennifer Dominguez
Adriana Madrigal
Erika Hallmark
Solomon Self
2. A little about Stephen Ambrose
Born, January 10, 1936
Died, October 13, 2002
Born in Lovington, Illinois
but he was raised in Whitewater, Wisconsin
His dad was a town doctor.
When he got older he went to the Navy.
3. When he came back from the navy he went University of Wisconsin and became a pre-med student, to
follow his fathers footsteps. He also got to play football there for 3 years.
Yet he decided changing his career to write about american history and american heros.
4. What he wrote
He wrote as you may know Lewis
and Clark and World War II.
He "wrote" or most reasonably to say, edited more than 35 books.
For example he copied from the Wild Blue, Crazy,Horse and Custer, Citizen Soldiers, Ruin and
Recovery and so many more.
5. October 13, 2002
Right after he has been pleaded guilty he died of lung cancer.
There was not much to go on with the case because he died.
He is now remembered as the dead american history writer who plagiarized.
7. Possible outcomes
• Lose all respect for all work he's ever
done.
• Injunction to prevent further
publication
• An account of profits ; whereby he
would have to hand over any profits
from his books
