Charles Grier Sellers

Charles Grier Sellers (born on September 9, 1923 in Charlotte, North Carolina)^[1] is an American historian.

Life

Born in North Carolina, Sellers earned a B.A. from Harvard University] in 1945 (graduation delayed by military service until 1947), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950.

In 1950-1951 Sellers was an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Maryland, followed in 1951-1958 by Princeton University. In 1958 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, getting promoted to full professor. In 1960-1961 he was honored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 1963 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1964 he was a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico. In 1970-1971 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Sellers was a member of the Southern Historical Association.^[2]

Sellers was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi airport on 21 July 1961, as a part of the Freedom Rides (profiled in Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders).^[3]

Awards

• 1963 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[4]

Works

• James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843. Princeton University Press. 1957.
• Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1960). "The Travail of Slavery". The Southerner as American. E. P. Dutton.
• Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1961). Andrew Jackson, Nullification and the State-Rights Tradition. Chicago: Rand McNally.
• The Market versus the Agrarian Republic in "A Synopsis of American History", 1st ed. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1963.
• James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843-1846. Princeton University Press. 1966. (Bancroft Prize)
• Andrew Jackson: A Profile. Hill and Wang. 1971. ISBN 978-0-8090-6051-1.
• Charles Grier Sellers, Henry Farnham May, Neil R. McMillen (1974). A Synopsis of American History. Chicago: I.R. Dee. Rand McNally. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5. (7th Edition 1992)
• As It Happened: A History of the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1975. ISBN 978-0-07-056179-3.
• The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-503889-7.

References

1. nature.berkeley.edu
2. "Historical News and Notices". The Journal of Southern History 25 (1): 150–155. February 1959. JSTOR 2954507.
3. http://crdl.usg.edu/people/s/sellers_charles_grier/?Welcome
4. http://www.gf.org/fellows/13281-charles-grier-sellers

External links

• "New Southern Accents", The New York Times, Hodding Carter, September 18, 1960
• "Charles G. Sellers, American Historian"
• Charles Sellers: From the Freedom Rides to the Free Speech Movement
• Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders - book's website
• Works by or about Charles Grier Sellers at Internet Archive