Name Eric McKitrick Role Historian | ||
Died April 24, 2002, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States Education Columbia University (1959) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books The Age of Federalism: The Early, Andrew Johnson and Reco, Slavery defended Similar People Stanley Elkins, Richard Hofstadter, George II of Great Britain | ||
Academic advisor Richard Hofstadter | ||
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.
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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. 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
He died in New York City, aged 82.