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Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American
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 stu ...
. She was a professor of history at
UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
. She was president of the
Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...
(1991) and the
American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...
(1997).


Life

Appleby was born in
Omaha, Nebraska Omaha ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. The nation's 39th-largest cit ...
. Her father was a businessman and she attended public schools in Omaha, Dallas, Kansas City, Evanston, Phoenix and Pasadena. Appleby received her B.A. degree from
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in 1950 and became a magazine writer in New York. Returning to academia, she earned her Ph.D. from
Claremont Graduate School The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate (Pomona College, Claremont McKenna Col ...
in 1966. Appleby was the widow of Andrew Bell Appleby, a professor of European history at San Diego State University. Her first marriage to Mark Lansburgh ended in divorce. She had three children: Ann Lansburgh Caylor, Mark Lansburgh and Frank Bell Appleby. Appleby died on December 23, 2016, at the age of 87.


Career

Appleby taught at
San Diego State University San Diego State University (SDSU) is a public research university in San Diego, California. Founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, it is the third-oldest university and southernmost in the 23-member California State University (CSU) system ...
from 1967 to 1981, then became a professor of history at the
University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
. She was elected a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
in 1993, and a member of the
American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...
in 1994. In 1990–1991, she was the
Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year. The Harmsworth Professorship was established by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–194 ...
at
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. As the president of the
Organization of American Historians The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...
, Appleby secured congressional support for an endowment to send American studies libraries to 60 universities around the world. A selection of 1,000 books was made by a group of scholars on American history, literature, political science, sociology and philosophy. Appleby was a specialist in historiography and the political thought of the early American Republic, with special interests in Republicanism, liberalism and the history of ideas about capitalism. She served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals and editorial projects, and received prominent national fellowships.


Works


Articles

* "Reconciliation and the Northern Novelist, 1865–1880", ''
Civil War History ''Civil War History'' is an academic journal of the American Civil War. It was established in 1955 at the State University of Iowa and is published quarterly by Kent State University Press. Topics covered in this journal include slavery and aboliti ...
'', Vol. 10 (June 1964) * "The Jefferson-Adams Rupture and the First French Translation of John Adams' ''Defence''", ''
American Historical Review ''The American Historical Review'' is a quarterly academic history journal and the official publication of the American Historical Association. It targets readers interested in all periods and facets of history and has often been described as the ...
'', Vol. 73, No. 4 (April 1968) * "The New Republican Synthesis and the Changing Political Ideas of John Adams", ''
American Quarterly ''American Quarterly'' is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the ...
'', Vol. 25, No. 5 (December 1973) * "Liberalism and the American Revolution", ''
New England Quarterly ''The New England Quarterly'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal consisting of articles on New England's cultural, literary, political, and social history. The journal contains essays, interpretations of traditional texts, essay reviews and book r ...
'', Vol. 49, No. 1 (March 1976) * "The Social Origins of American Revolutionary Ideology", ''
Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...
'', Vol. 64, No. 4 (March 1978) * "Modernization Theory and the Formation of Modern Social Theories in England and America", ''
Comparative Studies in Society and History ''Comparative Studies in Society and History'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent b ...
'', Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 1978) * "Commercial Farming and the 'Agrarian Myth' in the Early Republic", ''
Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...
'', Vol. 68, No. 4 (March 1982) * "What Is Still American in the Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson?", ''
William and Mary Quarterly William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
'', Vol. 39, No. 2 (April 1982) * "History as Art: Another View", ''
American Quarterly ''American Quarterly'' is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the ...
'', Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring 1982) * "Republicanism and Ideology", ''
American Quarterly ''American Quarterly'' is an academic journal and the official publication of the American Studies Association. The journal covers topics of both domestic and international concern in the United States and is considered a leading resource in the ...
'', Vol. 37, No. 4 (Autumn 1985) * "Republicanism in Old and New Contexts", ''
William and Mary Quarterly William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
'', Vol. 43, No. 1 (January 1986) * "The American Heritage: The Heirs and the Disinherited", ''
Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...
'', Vol. 74, No. 3 (December 1987) * "One Good Turn Deserves Another: Moving beyond the Linguistic; A Response to David Harlan", ''
American Historical Review ''The American Historical Review'' is a quarterly academic history journal and the official publication of the American Historical Association. It targets readers interested in all periods and facets of history and has often been described as the ...
'', Vol. 94, No. 5 (December 1989) * "Recovering America's Historic Diversity: Beyond Exceptionalism", ''
Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...
'', Vol. 79, No. 2 (September 1992) * "The Personal Roots of the First American Temperance Movement", ''
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society ''Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society'' is a quarterly journal published by the American Philosophical Society since 1838. The journal contains papers which have been read at meetings of the American Philosophical Society each April ...
'', Vol. 141, No. 2 (June 1997) * "The Power of History", ''
American Historical Review ''The American Historical Review'' is a quarterly academic history journal and the official publication of the American Historical Association. It targets readers interested in all periods and facets of history and has often been described as the ...
'', Vol. 103, No.1 (February 1998) * "The Americans' Higher-Law Thinking behind Higher Lawmaking", ''
Yale Law Journal The ''Yale Law Journal'' (YLJ), known also as the ''Yale Law Review'', is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students ...
'', Vol. 108, No. 8 (June 1999)


Books

* ''Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England'' (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978) * ''Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s'' (New York: New York University Press, 1984) * ''Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992) * (co-author) ''Telling the Truth About History'' (New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994) * (ed.) ''Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective'' (New York: Routledge, 1996) * (ed.) ''Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies'' (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997) * ''Inheriting the Revolution : The First Generation of Americans'' (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2000) * (ed.) Thomas Paine, ''Common Sense and Other Writings'' (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005) * '' The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism'' (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010) * ''Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination'' (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)


See also

*
List of Stanford University people This page lists the members of Stanford University, including students, alumni, faculty and academic affiliates associated. Stanford office Presidents Acting presidents were temporary appointments. Swain served while Wilbur was United Sta ...
*
List of University of California, Los Angeles people This is a list of notable present and former faculty, staff, and students of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Notable alumni Nobel laureates * Ralph Bunche – recipient of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize * Richard F. Heck – re ...


References


External links


Faculty page at UCLA
Retrieved 19 April 2010 . *
''In Depth'' interview with Appleby, July 2, 2006
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