Eric McKitrick

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.^[1]

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 in 1960-1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history.^[2] In 1979-80 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

McKitrick reviewed for The New York Review of Books^[3]

He died in New York City, aged 82.

Awards

• 1960 Dunning Prize
• 1994 Bancroft Prize

Works

• Eric L. McKitrick (1960). Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505707-2. (reprinted 1988)
• Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1963). Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-812800-6.
• Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1969). Andrew Johnson; A Profile. Hill and Wang. ISBN 978-0-8090-6160-0.
• Stanley M. Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick (1993). The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509381-0.

References

1. Obituary: Stanley M. Elkins (1925-2013)
2. "Eric L. McKitrick, 82, Historian and Writer". The New York Times. May 6, 2002.
3. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/241

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