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Name
  
Marcus Cunliffe

Role
  
Scholar

Died
  
1990


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Spouse
  
Mitzi Cunliffe (m. 1949–1971)

Children
  
Shay Cunliffe, Antonia Cunliffe

Education
  
Yale University, University of Oxford, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst

Books
  
The literature of the Unite, The Nation takes shape - 17, Chattel Slavery and Wag, American Presidents and the P, In Search of America: Transatla

Similar People
  
Mitzi Cunliffe, Robin Winks, Henry Steele Commager, George Washington

Marcus Falkner Cunliffe (1922–1990) was a British scholar who specialized in American Studies, especially military and cultural history.

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Education

Cunliffe was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, Sandhurst, and Yale, where he was Harkness Fellow.[1]

Career

Cunliffe lectured at the University of Manchester and the University of Sussex, where he was Professor of American Studies; he was also a visiting professor at Harvard. Cunliffe's papers were donated to the George Washington University in 1990. The collection includes diaries, correspondence, research notes, articles, chapters from books, syllabi, exam questions, news clippings, correspondence, original military ballads, illustrations, and photographs that range in date from 1936-1990 (bulk 1960-1990) documenting Cunliffe’s career as a scholar of American history. It is cared for by GWU's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.

Works

  • The American Presidency
  • The Literature of the United States (1954)
  • Marcus Cunliffe and Robin W. Winks, eds. Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (1969)
  • Marcus Cunliffe. Soldiers and Civilians: The Martial Spirit in America, 1775–1865 (1969).
  • George Washington: Man and Monument (1958)
  • References

    Marcus Cunliffe Wikipedia