Bradford Perkins (historian)
Encyclopedia
Bradford Perkins was an American historian
who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Michigan
. He was the son of the historian Dexter Perkins
.
history department in 1962 and retired in [???]. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan
. He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College London
.
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...
who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. He was the son of the historian Dexter Perkins
Dexter Perkins
Dexter Perkins was one of the most prominent authorities on United States History and served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester.-Biography:...
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Life
Perkins was born in Rochester, New York, in 1925, where his father was a professor at the University of Rochester. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European theater. He received his A.B. in 1947 from Harvard University, and completed his doctoral work there in 1952. He taught for a period of time at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
history department in 1962 and retired in [???]. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
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Honors and Awards
- 1962 Guggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim FellowshipGuggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...
- 1965 Bancroft PrizeBancroft PrizeThe Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...
(for Castlereagh and Adams) - 1974 President of the Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsSociety for Historians of American Foreign RelationsThe Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is the leading learned society for the academic study of the history of United States foreign policy....
- 1979 delivered the Albert Shaw Lectures at Johns Hopkins University
- 1984-1994 member, Department of State Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation
- Elected to the Society of American Historians
- Elected Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical SocietyMassachusetts Historical SocietyThe Massachusetts Historical Society is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history...
- Elected to the American Antiquarian SocietyAmerican Antiquarian SocietyThe American Antiquarian Society , located in Worcester, Massachusetts, is both a learned society and national research library of pre-twentieth century American History and culture. Its main building, known also as Antiquarian Hall, is a U.S. National Historic Landmark...
Works
- "Impressions of Wartime," The Journal of American History, September 1990
- "Interests, Values, and the Prism: The Sources of American Foreign Policy", Journal of the Early Republic, 1994
- The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805 (1955)
- Prologue to war, England and the United States, 1805-1812 (1961)
- Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823 (1964)
- England and the United States (1967)
- The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895-1914 (1968, reprinted 2003)
- The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865 (Volume 1 of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, ed. Warren I. Cohen)(1995)