Thomas M. Doerflinger (1952–2015) was an American historian.
He is the son of William Main Doerflinger. He was a MCEAS Dissertation Fellow, at Harvard University in 1978-1979.
He trained as a historian at Princeton and Harvard.
He died on August 23, 2015.
1987 Bancroft Prize1980 Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essays "How to Succeed in Business: An Exchange", The New York Review of Books, July 11, 1996"Rural Capitalism in Iron Country: Staffing a Forest Factory, 1808–1815", William & Mary Quarterly, January 2002"The Antilles Trade of the Old Regime: A Statistical Overview", Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Winter 1976A Vigorous Spirit of Enterprise: Merchants and Economic Development in Revolutionary Philadelphia. UNC Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-8078-4946-0. Thomas M. Doerflinger, Jack L. Rivkin (1987). Risk and reward: venture capital and the making of America's great industries. Random House. ISBN 978-0-394-54929-3. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)Enterprise on the Delaware. Harvard University. 1980. 