Bradford Perkins (March 6, 1925 – June 29, 2008) was an American historian who spent the bulk of his career at the University of Michigan. He was the son of the historian

Dexter Perkins Dexter Perkins (20 June 1889 – 12 May 1984) was a historian who served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of American History at the University of Rochester. Biography Born in Boston, and educated at Boston Latin School, Perkins rec ...

Life

Perkins was born in Rochester, New York, in 1925, where his father was a professor at the University of Rochester. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European theater. He received his A.B. in 1947 from Harvard University, and completed his doctoral work there in 1952 under the direction of

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. Perkins taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the University of Michigan history department in 1962 and retired in 1997. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College London.

Honors and awards

* 1962

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

* 1965 Bancroft Prize (for ''Castlereagh and Adams'') * 1974 President of the

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) was founded in order to “promote excellence in research and teaching of American foreign relations history and to facilitate professional collaboration among scholars and students ...

* 1979 delivered the

Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History The Albert Shaw Lectures on Diplomatic History are annual lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The lectures were named after the benefactor, Albert Shaw of New York City who had received his Ph.D from Johns Hopki ...

at Johns Hopkins University * 1984-1994 member,

Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nati ...

Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation * Elected to the

Society of American Historians The Society of American Historians, founded in 1939, encourages and honors literary distinction in the writing of history and biography about American topics. The approximately 300 members include professional historians, independent scholars, jou ...

* Elected Fellow of the

Massachusetts Historical Society The Massachusetts Historical Society is a major historical archive specializing in early American, Massachusetts, and New England history. The Massachusetts Historical Society was established in 1791 and is located at 1154 Boylston Street in Bost ...

* Elected to the American Antiquarian Society

Works

"Impressions of Wartime," ''The Journal of American History'', September 1990"Interests, Values, and the Prism: The Sources of American Foreign Policy", ''Journal of the Early Republic'', 1994
*''The First Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1795-1805'' (1955) *''Prologue to war, England and the United States, 1805-1812'' (196
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*''Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823'' (1964) *''England and the United States'' (1967) *''The Great Rapprochement: England and the United States, 1895-1914'' (1968, reprinted 2003) *''The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776-1865'' (Volume 1 of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, ed.

Warren I. Cohen Warren I. Cohen is an American historian specializing in the diplomatic history of the United States. He is Distinguished University Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Cohen formerly served as president of the Soci ...

)(1995)

References

External links

"ORAL HISTORY OF BRADFORD PERKINS", ''University of Michigan'', JASON R. GLASS, March 14,1999
20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers Harvard University alumni Writers from Rochester, New York University of Michigan faculty United States Army personnel of World War II 1925 births 2008 deaths Historians of American foreign relations Historians from New York (state) Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub