William Leuchtenburg
William Leuchtenburg | |
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Born | William Edward Leuchtenburg September 28, 1922 New York City, New York, US |
Years active | 1953–present |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Influences | Henry Steele Commager |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | American history |
Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Doctoral students | |
Notable works | Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963) |
William Edward Leuchtenburg (born September 28, 1922) is the William Rand Kenan Jr. professor emeritus of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[3] He is a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Career[]
Leuchtenburg was born in New York City[4] on September 28, 1922. On Ken Burns' documentary series Prohibition, he described, when he was a child, how his father was reported for operating an illegal distillery during the Prohibition Era.[5] He received his BA degree in 1943 from Cornell University, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He later received his PhD from Columbia University in 1951.[6]
He won the 2007 North Carolina Award for Literature.[7]
He served as a program consultant for Ken Burns' documentary series Prohibition, which premiered on PBS in October, 2011.[8]
He is a past president of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Society of American Historians. Eric Foner is the only other historian to claim that distinction.
Bibliography[]
Leuchtenburg is the author of more than a dozen books on 20th-century history,[9] including the Bancroft Prize–winning Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963), a volume in the series co-edited by his mentor Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris. His books include:
- Flood Control Politics: The Connecticut River Valley Problem, 1927–1950 (1953)
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–32 (1958) ISBN 978-0-226-47371-0
- The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People (Introduction) (1961)
- The LIFE History of the United States, Volume 11: 1933–1945 – New Deal and Global War (1963)
- The LIFE History of the United States, Volume 12: From 1945 – The Great Age of Change (1963)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963) online
- The New Deal: A Documentary History (1968)
- Growth of the American Republic (2 vols.) with Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager (1969)
- A Troubled Feast: American Society Since 1945 (1973)
- New Deal and Global War (1974)
- The Growth of the American Republic (Volume I) with Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager (1980)
- A Concise History of the American Republic (Single Volume) with Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager (1983)
- In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan (1989; fourth edition, subtitled From Harry Truman to Barack Obama, 2009)
- The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932 (The Chicago History of American Civilization) (1993)
- The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1996)
- The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy (1997)
- American Places: Encounters with History (editor) (2000)
- That Man: An Insider's Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt with Robert H. Jackson et al. (2004)
- The White House Looks South: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson (2005)
- The Executive Branch (2006)
- Herbert Hoover (The American Presidents Series) (2006)
- The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton (2015)
References[]
- ^ Mattson, Kevin (2003). "The Historian as a Social Critic: Christopher Lasch and the Uses of History". The History Teacher. 36 (3): 378. doi:10.2307/1555694. ISSN 1945-2292. JSTOR 1555694.
- ^ Mattson, Kevin (March 31, 2017). "An Oracle for Trump's America?". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 63 no. 30. Washington. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
- ^ "unctv.org".
- ^ "Contemporary Authors: First revision". Gale Research Company. August 29, 1969 – via Google Books.
- ^ Prohibition: A film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, Episode 3: A Nation of Hypocrites, PBS, 2011
- ^ "William E. Leuchtenburg Papers". University of North Carolina Archives.
- ^ http://college.unc.edu/features/november2007/article.2007-11-28.1519648318
- ^ "Film & Website Credits". Prohibition: A film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick. PBS. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
- ^ http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/may97/leuchx.html
External links[]
- 1922 births
- Living people
- 21st-century American historians
- 21st-century American male writers
- American political scientists
- American political writers
- American male non-fiction writers
- Columbia University alumni
- Cornell University alumni
- Presidents of the American Historical Association
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
- Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History
- Bancroft Prize winners