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The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press.Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy since 1999.
In the 1950s, historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter envisioned a multivolume history of the United States, the Oxford History of the United States, modeled on the Oxford History of England. [1] They began their co-editorship with Oxford University Press in earnest in 1961 and reached out to historians to request manuscripts.
The magazine was founded in late 1989 in Oxford, Mississippi, by Marc Smirnoff (born July 11, 1963). [2]The name "Oxford American" is a play on The American Mercury, H. L. Mencken's general interest magazine which Smirnoff long admired.
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945 is a 1999 nonfiction book by the American historian David M. Kennedy.Published as part of the Oxford History of the United States, Freedom from Fear covers the history of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II.
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815 is a nonfiction book written by the American historian Gordon S. Wood.Published as a clothbound hardcover in 2009 as part of the Oxford History of the United States series, the book narrates the history of the United States in the first twenty-six years following the ratification of the U. S. Constitution.
His research interests include political history, legal history, and social history, as well as the history of medicine, race relations, and education. [4] In 1981–1982, he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. [5]
The Oxford companion to American history. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195005974. Johnson, Paul (1999). A history of the American people (1st HarperPerennial ed.). HarperPerennial. ISBN 0060930349. OCLC 40984521. Kammen, Michael G., ed. (1980). The Past before us: Contemporary historical writing in the United States. Cornell University Press.
The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The Harmsworth Professorship was established by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940) in memory of his son Harold Vyvyan Alfred St George, who was killed in the First World ...