Bradford Perkins (historian)

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.

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 Frederick Merk.

Perkins taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the University of Michigan history department in 1962 and retired in 1997.[1] He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. He was Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College London.[2]

Honors and awards

Works

References

  1. "Bradford Perkins | Faculty History Project". www.lib.umich.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2016-12-21.
  2. Perkins, Bradford (1994). "Interests, Values, and the Prism: The Sources of American Foreign Policy". Journal of the Early Republic. 14 (4): 458–466. doi:10.2307/3124468. JSTOR 3124468.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2010-01-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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