Peter Robert Kolchin
(born June 3, 1943) is 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 ...
. He has specialized in slavery and labor in the American South before and after the Civil War, and in comparisons with Russian serfdom and other forms of labor. He won the
Bancroft Prize in American History and the
Avery O. Craven Award
Avery may refer to:
Business
* Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles
* Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems
* Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail ...
for his book ''
Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom'' (1987).
Life
Born in New York, Peter Kolchin attended local schools. He graduated from
Columbia University
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with an
A.B.
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in 1964, and conducted graduate work at
Johns Hopkins University
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, where he received a Ph.D. in 1970. His doctoral thesis was entitled ''First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction''.
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He is a professor at the ]University of Delaware
The University of Delaware (colloquially UD or Delaware) is a public land-grant research university located in Newark, Delaware. UD is the largest university in Delaware. It offers three associate's programs, 148 bachelor's programs, 121 mas ...
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Awards
* 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History
* 1988 Avery O. Craven Award
Avery may refer to:
Business
* Avery Company, a former tractor manufacturer and later produced trucks and automobiles
* Avery Weigh-Tronix, a British manufacturer of industrial weighing systems
* Avery Berkel, a British manufacturer of retail ...
from 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 ...
* Charles Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association
Works
* (Revised Ed. 2008, )
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* American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993, revised ed. 2003)
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References
1943 births
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
University of Delaware faculty
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Historians of slavery
Historians from New York (state)
Bancroft Prize winners
American male non-fiction writers
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