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Hugh Davis Graham (September 2, 1936 – March 26, 2002) was an American historian and sociologist. He was the author of several books about the
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.


Early life

Graham was born on September 2, 1936 in
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, one of three sons of a Presbyterian minister. He studied history at
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and completed a Ph.D. in history at Stanford University in 1964.


Career

From 1967 to 1971 he taught at
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, where he served as director of the Institute of Southern History. In 1968–69 he co-directed a task force for the
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on civil disorders and co-edited the commission's report, ''Violence in America''. He taught for 20 years at the
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, before moving in 1991 to
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, where he was Holland N. McTyeire Professor of History, dean of the social science division, and later dean of graduate studies and research. He later became an adjunct professor of History at the
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. Graham's early interest in civil rights and southern politics led him to join Numan Bartley in 1975 in writing ''Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction'', an update of the classic work by V.O. Key. While teaching at the University of Maryland, he began a new line of scholarship involving the making and implementation of federal policy. These studies led to three major books and a national reputation as the most successful pioneer in the new field of policy history. His first policy study, ''The Uncertain Triumph'' (1984), dealt with the enactment and implementation of major federal aid for public education. Next came his most influential book, ''The Civil Rights Era'' (1990), which dealt with the enactment and implementation of the three major civil rights acts. His last policy study, which complemented his work on civil rights, was ''Collision Course'' (2002). It showed how early civil rights legislation, intended largely to correct injustices to African Americans, eventually offered protections to immigrant minorities who were among Americans with the highest incomes, revealing "the often unforeseen, or unwanted, effects of social legislation".


Death

Graham died on 26 March 2002 in Santa Barbara, California.


Partial bibliography

*''Violence in America: Historical And Comparative Perspectives''. Ed. with Ted Robert Gurr. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. 1969. *''Huey Long (Great Lives Observed)''. Prentice Hall. 1970. *''Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction''. With Numan V. Bartley. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1976. *''The Uncertain Triumph: Federal Education Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Years''. University of North Carolina Press. 1984. *''The Civil Rights Era: Origins and Development of National Policy, 1960-1972''. Oxford University Press. 1990. *''Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America''. Oxford University Press. 2003. *''The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era''. With Nancy Diamond. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2004.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Hugh Davis 1936 births 2002 deaths Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas Yale University alumni Stanford University alumni University of Maryland, Baltimore County faculty Vanderbilt University faculty Vanderbilt University administrators University of California, Santa Barbara faculty American sociologists 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers