Eric McKitrick
Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American historian, best known for The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994.[1]
Life[]
McKitrick was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1949, an M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at the University of Chicago and at Rutgers University's Douglass College in the 1950s, and Columbia University from 1960 to 1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history.[2] In 1973-74 he was the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University and in 1979-80 the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
McKitrick reviewed for The New York Review of Books[3]
He died in New York City, aged 82.
Awards[]
- 1960 Dunning Prize
- 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1994 Bancroft Prize
Works[]
- Eric L. McKitrick (1960). Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505707-2. (reprinted 1988)
- Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1963). Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-812800-6.
- Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1969). Andrew Johnson; A Profile. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-6160-0.
- Stanley M. Elkins & Eric L. McKitrick (1993). The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509381-0.
References[]
- ^ "Stanley Elkins Obituary - Springfield, MA | Daily Hampshire Gazette".
- ^ "Eric L. McKitrick, 82, Historian and Writer". The New York Times. May 6, 2002.
- ^ "Eric L. McKitrick". The New York Review of Books.
External links[]
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- 1920 births
- 2002 deaths
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- University of Chicago faculty
- Rutgers University faculty
- Columbia University faculty
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History
- Bancroft Prize winners
- 20th-century American male writers
- American historian stubs