Name Bradford Perkins Role Historian | Academic advisor Frederick Merk | |
Died June 29, 2008, Michigan, United States Awards Bancroft Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada People also search for Warren I. Cohen, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Frederick Merk Books Building Type Basics for, Architect's Essentials of Startin, Building Type Basics for, Prologue to War: England, The great rapprochement | ||
Education Harvard University (1952) | ||
Bradford Perkins (March 6, 1925 – June 29, 2008) was an American historian who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Michigan. He was the son of the historian Dexter Perkins.
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Perkins was born in Rochester, New York, in 1925, where his father was a professor at the University of Rochester. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European theater. He received his A.B. in 1947 from Harvard University, and completed his doctoral work there in 1952 under the direction of Frederick Merk.
Perkins taught for a period of time at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the University of Michigan history department in 1962 and retired in 1997. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College London.