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| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Frederick B. Adams | | | Institution: | Pierpont Morgan Library | | | Year Elected: | 1965 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1910 | | | Death Date: | January 7, 2001 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Dr. Joyce Appleby | | | Institution: | University of California, Los Angeles | | | Year Elected: | 1994 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | December 23, 2016 | | | | | | |
One of the most important historians of early America of her generation, Joyce Appleby was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1929 and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles for twenty years. After graduating from Stanford University in 1950, she worked in the field of newspaper and magazine writing, including a stint for Mademoiselle magazine in New York City. She later returned to California, where she raised her family while earning a Ph.D. in history from Claremont Graduate School. Despite a late career start, Dr. Appleby has, through her books and about 25 important articles, reshaped perspectives on the ideological dimensions of early American life. She published a presidential biography of Thomas Jefferson in 2003, a collection of her essays, A Restless Past: History and the American Public, in 2005, and also recently edited a volume of the writings of Thomas Paine. Her latest book, The Relentless Revolution (2010), traces Capitalism through its various twists and turns and analyses its function as an extension of culture. She has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and as Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. Dr. Appleby co-directed the History News Service, wrote op-ed essays and worked on the living wage movement in Los Angeles. She died December 23, 2016, at the age of 87. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Bernard Bailyn | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1971 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | August 7, 2020 | | | | | | |
American historian Bernard Bailyn received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953 and taught history there, becoming full professor in 1961, University Professor in 1980, and professor emeritus in 1993. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice: first for his book The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967) which also won the Bancroft Prize, in which he challenged long-standing interpretations of the causes of the American Revolution, and then for Voyagers to the West (1986), a study of Anglo-American migration patterns on the eve of the Revolution. Dr. Bailyn's other books include The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century (1955); Education in the Forming of American Society (1960); The Origins of American Politics (1968); The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson (1974), which won the National Book Award; The Peopling of British North America (1986); On the Teaching and Writing of History (1994); To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders (2003); Atlantic History: Concept and Contours (2005); and The Barbarous Years (2013). One of the wisest scholars on the colonial and Revolutionary period, Dr. Bailyn has also worked on economic, social and intellectual history. Since 1995 he has concentrated on Atlantic history, the interactions among the peoples of the four continents that border the Atlantic basin. Other posts he has held include editor-in-chief of the John Harvard Library, co-editor of the journal Perspectives in American History and Director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Professor bailyn was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Mexican Academy of History and Geography. He was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. | |
| 4 | Name: | Dr. Keith Michael Baker | | | Institution: | Stanford University | | | Year Elected: | 1997 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | | | | |
Keith Baker is the J. E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities; a professor of history; and director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1964 and taught at Reed College and the University of Chicago before joining the Stanford faculty in 1988. At Stanford, he has served as Chair of the Department of History (1994-95), Director of the Stanford Humanites (1995-2000) and Cognizant Dean for the Humanities in the School of Humanities and Sciences. One of the world's foremost historians of 18th-century France, Dr. Baker also served for almost a decade as co-editor of the Journal of Modern History, the leading English-language quarterly for research in modern European history. Dr. Baker's own research has focused on problems of intellectual history and the history of political culture. He is the author of what is widely considered to be the definitive study of the Marquis de Condorcet, the philosopher of progress and social science who was one of the great figures of the French Enlightenment and Revolution. More recently, Dr. Baker has studied the cultural and political origins of the French Revolution and has made important contributions to the development of a new understanding of that event and of its significance for the creation of modern politics. Among his many honors and awards, he has held a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been named Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. | |
| 5 | Name: | Mr. Silvio A. Bedini | | | Institution: | Smithsonian Institution | | | Year Elected: | 1975 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1917 | | | Death Date: | November 14, 2007 | | | | |
| 6 | Name: | Dr. Whitfield J. Bell | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society | | | Year Elected: | 1964 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | January 2, 2009 | | | | | | |
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr. was Librarian and Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society. He received his Bachelor's degree from Dickinson College in 1935 and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947.
Dr. Bell taught history at Dickinson College from 1937-54 and was visiting professor of history at the College of William and Mary and visiting editor of the William and Mary Quarterly. He left to edit the Papers of Benjamin Franklin. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania for two decades, beginning in 1977.
Dr. Bell came to the American Philosophical Society Library in 1954, serving as librarian from 1966-80. He also served as Executive Officer from 1977-83.
Dr. Bell was a member of many historical societies, including the American Antiquarian Society, the American Historical Association, and the American Association for the History of Medicine, of which he was president from 1970-72. He was an honorary Fellow of the College of Physicians and recently received the Distinguished Service Medal from the College in recognition of his bicentennial history of the College.
He authored several books and many articles on history, history of science, history of medicine and Benjamin Franklin. He also authored "Patriot Improvers," a collection of biographical sketches of members of the American Philosophical Society. Whitfield Bell died January 2, 2009 in Carlisle, Pennsylvania at the age of 94. | |
| 7 | Name: | Dr. James H. Billington | | | Institution: | Library of Congress | | | Year Elected: | 1988 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1929 | | | Death Date: | November 20, 2018 | | | | | | |
James H. Billington served as the Librarian of Congress beginning in 1987. Born in Bryn Mawr, PA, he attended Princeton University and earned his D.Phil. degree in 1953 from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College. Following service in the military, Dr. Billington taught history at Harvard University (1957-62) and Princeton University (1962-74). In late 1973, Dr. Billington became director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, founding both the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russia Studies as well as the Wilson Quarterly during his fourteen-year tenure at the Center. His publications in the field of Russian history and culture included The Face of Russia (1998), a companion book to a three-part PBS television series of the same title narrated and written by Dr. Billington, and Russia in Search of Itself (2004). Dr. Billington received forty honorary degrees as well as the Woodrow Wilson Award of Princeton University and the UCLA Medal. He was a member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships (1971-76; chairman, 1973-75), which administers the Fulbright Exchange Program worldwide. He was the founder and Chairman of the Board of the Open World Exchange program. He received state honors from the governments of Brazil, Italy, Germany, the Republic of Korea, and the Kyrgz Republic, as well as the highest honors awarded to foreigners by France (The Legion of Honor) and Russia (The Order of Friendship). He championed the addition of digital collections to traditional analog materials and services to the Library of Congress and gained UNESCO backing in 2007 for a new World Digital Library of original and important primary materials from the world's varied cultures. Dr. Billington served on the Board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences as well as the Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1988. | |
| 8 | Name: | Dr. David W. Blight | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1949 | | | | | | |
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He previously taught at North Central College in Illinois, Harvard University, and Amherst College. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom; American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and A Slave No More: Two Post-Civil War Slave Narratives, and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographiers. He has worked on Douglass most much of his professional life, and been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others. He writes frequently for the popular press, including the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other journals. His lecture course on the Civil War and Reconstruction Era at Yale is on the internet at https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119. He is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which award him the Gold Medal in History in 2020. Blight has always been a teacher first. At the beginning of his career, he spent seven years as a high school history teacher in his hometown of Flint, Michigan. Blight maintains a website, including information about public lectures, books, articles and interviews at http://www.davidwblight.com/. | |
| 9 | Name: | Dr. Morton W. Bloomfield | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 4/14/87 | | | | |
| 10 | Name: | Dr. Jerome Blum | | | Institution: | Princeton University | | | Year Elected: | 1979 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1913 | | | Death Date: | 5/7/93 | | | | |
| 11 | Name: | Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin | | | Institution: | Library of Congress | | | Year Elected: | 1981 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | February 28, 2004 | | | | |
| 12 | Name: | Dr. Carl Bridenbaugh | | | Institution: | Brown University | | | Year Elected: | 1958 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1903 | | | Death Date: | 1/6/92 | | | | |
| 13 | Name: | Dr. Diana L. Kormos Buchwald | | | Institution: | California Institute of Technology | | | Year Elected: | 2021 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1956 | | | | | | |
Diana Kormos Buchwald is the Robert M. Abbey Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology and is married to Jed Z. Buchwald (APS 2011), the Doris and Henry Dreyfuss Professor of History, also at Caltech. She is the Director of the Einstein Papers Project and General Editor of The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Under her leadership, the project has published nine volumes with Princeton University Press, in both the original language and in English translation (17 volumes). This ongoing research effort is aimed at making available in print and online Einstein’s massive written legacy, which ranges from his work on the special and general theories of relativity and the origins of quantum theory, to his active involvement with international collaboration and cooperation, human rights, education, and disarmament. More than 10,000 documents have been made available so far. Diana Kormos Buchwald was trained in physical chemistry at the Technion Institute (BSc ’81) and the University of Tel Aviv (MSc ’83) before turning to the study of the history of modern science at Harvard University (Ph.D. ’90). She specializes in 19th and 20th century history of physical sciences, scientific institutions, instruments, and interdisciplinarity. She is a fellow of the AAAS, the American Physical Society, and has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften, Vienna. She has recently joined the Advisory Board of the Global Observatory on Academic Freedom. | |
| 14 | Name: | Dr. Carol Anderson | | | Institution: | Emory University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1959 | | | | | | |
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies at Emory University.
She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards; as well as, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, which was also published by Cambridge.
Her third book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and is also a New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and listed on the Zora List of 100 Best Books by Black Woman Authors since 1850.
Her fourth book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy, was Long-listed for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Award in Non-Fiction.
Her young adult adaptation of White Rage, We are Not Yet Equal was nominated for an NAACP Image Award.
Her fifth book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, explores the anti-Blackness of the Second Amendment and the consequences for African Americans’ citizenship and lives. The Second was chosen as a New York Times Editor’s pick, Best Social Science Books of 2021 by Library Journal, and one of Writer’s Bone, Best Books of 2021.
She has been elected into the Society of American Historians, named a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and elected to the American Philosophical Society.
In addition to numerous teaching awards, her research has garnered fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Ford Foundation, National Humanities Center, Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center, the University of Chicago’s Pozen Center for Human Rights, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
She’s been awarded the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize from Brandeis University. She also was honored with the James W. C. Pennington Award from Heidelberg University (Germany). Anderson has also been selected as a Presidential Scholar at Amherst College.
Professor Anderson was a member of the U.S. State Department’s Historical Advisory Committee; the Pulitzer Prize Committee for History; and the National Book Awards Committee in Non-fiction.
She earned her Ph.D. in history from The Ohio State University. | |
| 15 | Name: | Dr. Edward C. Carter | | | Institution: | American Philosophical Society | | | Year Elected: | 1983 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1928 | | | Death Date: | October 1, 2002 | | | | |
| 16 | Name: | Dr. Alfred D. Chandler | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1984 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1918 | | | Death Date: | May 9, 2007 | | | | |
| 17 | Name: | Dr. Thomas C. Cochran | | | Institution: | University of Pennsylvania | | | Year Elected: | 1953 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1902 | | | Death Date: | 5/2/99 | | | | |
| 18 | Name: | Dr. I. Bernard Cohen | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1995 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1914 | | | Death Date: | June 20, 2003 | | | | |
| 19 | Name: | Ms. Ellen R. Cohn | | | Institution: | Yale University | | | Year Elected: | 2023 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1955 | | | | | | |
Ellen R. Cohn is Editor-in-Chief of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin and Senior Research Scholar in the Department of History, Yale University. She joined the Franklin Papers in 1979, when the team was commencing work on Franklin’s diplomatic mission to France (1777-1785), and has directed the project since 1999. She has written and lectured widely on various aspects of Franklin’s views and activities including science, diplomacy, his literary essays, his musical life, and the private press and typefoundry he established in France during the American Revolution. | |
| 20 | Name: | Dr. Frederick Cooper | | | Institution: | New York University | | | Year Elected: | 2024 | | | Class: | 3. Social Sciences | | | Subdivision: | 303. History Since 1715 | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
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| | | Birth Date: | 1947 | | | | | | |
Frederick Cooper has been studying Africa since his undergraduate days at Stanford in the 1960s. His approach to African history, in research and teaching, has emphasized changing perspectives: zooming in through detailed research on the particularities of place and time within a diverse continent, zooming out to explore connections across space and patterns over time. He has been concerned with how to understand and employ social theory in relation to historically specific situations. The “East African” phase of his career resulted in three books on slavery and post-emancipation agricultural labor in Zanzibar and Kenya (1977, 1980) and on urban labor in Kenya (1987). While these works were influenced by the literature on comparative slavery in the Americas and on labor and capitalist development in Europe, Cooper did not take western cases as a paradigm against which the rest of the world should be held but insisted that African material should lead to rethinking conceptual schemes themselves. During these years, Cooper also wrote field-defining essays on slavery in Africa (1979) and on Africa’s relation to the world economy (1981). He began to work on the politics of colonialism in collaboration with the anthropologist Ann Laura Stoler, resulting in an international conference and a co-edited book Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997). Meanwhile, Cooper’s archival research turned toward the study of the relationship of labor to decolonization and economic development and expanded to include French Africa, ending up with a monograph (1996) as well as a co-edited book on development and the social sciences (1997).
Cooper’s interest in social science theory was developed through critical essays on the concepts of identity, globalization, modernity, nation-state, and empire, collected in his 2005 book Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, which earned him the reputation among his friends as “concept cop.” He was encouraged by years of conversation with his spouse, the Russian historian Jane Burbank, to think beyond the 1st-3rd world orientation and modernist bias of colonial studies. Burbank and Cooper took the leap of developing a year-long graduate course at the University of Michigan on empires in world history. When they both moved to New York University in 2002, they took the course with them and then developed an undergraduate course on the same theme. Their teaching in turn led them to write Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (2010), which has been translated into nine languages, won a book prize from the World History Association, and was a key element in the award to Burbank and Cooper of the Arnold Toynbee Prize in 2023 for contributions to global history. This spousal collective produced another book, Post-Imperial Possibilities: Eurasia, Eurafrica, Afroasia (2023). Cooper, along the way, wrote a monograph on citizenship and decolonization in France and French Africa (2014) and synthetic and analytical books on Africa’s place in the world (2014) and citizenship in world history (2018), as well as a textbook on contemporary African history (2nd ed. 2019).
Cooper’s teaching career went from Harvard to Michigan to NYU. He regularly taught courses in African history as well as on slavery, post-emancipation societies, colonialism, economic development, and empires. He has worked with PhD students who have gone on to stellar careers. He has been a visiting professor at several universities in France, where he has many close friends and colleagues, and he has given talks at universities and research centers in Africa, Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia. In addition to Empires in World History, others of his books and articles have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and Italian. His research, over the years, in Great Britain, France, Kenya, and Senegal has been aided by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and, at an early career stage, the American Philosophical Society. His writing benefitted from residential fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Center on Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History in Berlin, the Humanities Institute at Michigan, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. He retired from teaching in 2020 but continues to write, lecture, and participate in a variety of academic events. | |
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