Eric L. McKitrick is Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia. He is the author, with Stanley Elkins, of The Age of Federalism. (November 2001)
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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

