Robert A. Gross
Robert Alan Gross (born Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American historian, and James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut.[1]
Life
Gross graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, and from Columbia University with an M.A. in 1968 and a Ph.D. in 1976. He taught at Amherst College from 1976–88, the University of Sussex from 1981–83 and the College of William and Mary from 1988-2003.
He has written on such themes as multiculturalism and transnationalism in American thought and life.[2]
His work appeared in Newsweek, Harper's,[3] Saturday Review, and Book World.
Awards
- 1977 Bancroft Prize
- 1979 Guggenheim Fellowship [4]
- Howard Fellowship
- Rockefeller Foundations Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Humanities grant
- American Antiquarian Society grant
Works
- The Minutemen and Their World (1976) (reprint Hill and Wang, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8090-0120-0)
- In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. University Press of Virginia. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8139-1353-7.
- The Transcendentalists and Their World, Hill & Wang [5]
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