Eric L. McKitrick (1920–2002) was a historian of the United States. Educated at Columbia, McKitrick taught at the University of Chicago and Rutgers before returning to Columbia in 1960. He is perhaps best known for Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction; his other works treated slavery and the American South, as well as the history of the American party system.
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The Good Loser
November 29, 2001
Jefferson Davis, American
by William J. Cooper Jr.
Jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart
by Felicity Allen
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Washington the Liberator
November 4, 1999
George Washington’s Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
by Robert F. Dalzell Jr., by Lee Baldwin Dalzell
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The Liberator
October 21, 1999
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery
by Henry Mayer
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JQA: For the Defense
April 23, 1998
John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel
Amistad a film directed by Steven Spielberg, and produced by Steven Spielberg, by Debbie Allen, by Colin Wilson
Amistad an opera, musical score by Anthony Davis, libretto by Thulani Davis
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Portrait of an Enigma
April 24, 1997
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis
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A Hero of Antislavery
November 14, 1996
Arguing about Slavery: The Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller
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The Great White Hope
June 11, 1992
Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union by Robert V. Remini
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Did Jefferson Blunder?
December 6, 1990
Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson by Robert W. Tucker, by David C. Hendrickson
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Reconstructing Andrew Johnson
May 17, 1990
Andrew Johnson: A Biography by Hans L. Trefousse
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The View from Jefferson’s Camp
December 17, 1970
Jefferson the President: First Term, 1801-1805 (Volume IV, Jefferson and his Time) by Dumas Malone
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography
by Merrill D. Peterson
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A Pinch of Saltus
November 5, 1970
Edgar Saltus
by Claire Sprague
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Goodbye to All That
June 9, 1966
The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union
by George Fredrickson
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The Age of Deference
February 17, 1966
The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy by David Hackett Fischer
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Survey Course
September 16, 1965
The Oxford History of the American People by Samuel Eliot Morison
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An Old Story
February 25, 1965
Rehearsal For Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment by Willie Lee Rose