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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.
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.
The American Heritage Center is the University of Wyoming's repository of manuscripts, rare books, and the university archives. [1] [2] Its collections focus on Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West (including politics, settlement, Native Americans, and Western trails) [3] and a select handful of national topics: environment and conservation, the mining and petroleum industries, air and rail ...
Book publisher Oxford University Press produces "Oxford histories", a line of book series usually intended to broadly synthesize historical topics. [1] In 1961, historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward began co-editing the Oxford History of the United States. [2]
The American Guide Series includes books and pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era program that was part of the larger Works Progress Administration in the United States. The American Guide Series books were compiled by the FWP, but printed by individual states, and ...
The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
The Oxford Historical Monographs Committee is the series' editorial board and is composed of postholders in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. It meets four times each year to consider examiners' reports and conduct other business. The committee is intended to represent as wide a range of period and thematic interests as possible. [2]