Leo Paul Ribuffo (September 23, 1945 – November 27, 2018) was an American historian. He was Society of the Cincinnati George Washington Distinguished Professor at

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Life

Born in

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in 1966 with a B.A. in history and earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

in 1976. He taught at Yale University from 1970 to 1972 and

Bucknell University Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1846 as the University at Lewisburg, it now consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, Freeman College of Management, and the College of Engineerin ...

from 1972 to 1973. He moved to George Washington University in 1973. He received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the

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, served as visiting professor at Fudan University in China, and held the

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-American Studies Association residency in Japan. He was academic adviser to ''The World of F. Scott Fitzgerald'' (NPR), ''With God on Our Side'' (PBS-TV) and the documentary film ''The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg''. Ribuffo was also worked as a specialist abroad for the

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(USIA) in Nigeria and the Republic of Korea. He died on November 27, 2018.

Awards

* 1985 Merle Curti Award

Writings

Books

* (reprint Temple University Press, 1988,
online edition
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Contributions

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Essays

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References

External links

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Ribuffo retrospective at Society for US Intellectual History
1945 births 2018 deaths Bucknell University faculty George Washington University faculty Rutgers University alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Writers from Paterson, New Jersey Yale University alumni Yale University faculty Historians from New Jersey American male non-fiction writers People of the United States Information Agency {{US-historian-stub