Harmsworth Professors (American History) at Oxford
1922-25 Samuel Eliot Morison, Harvard University 1925-39 *Robert McNutt McElroy, Princeton University 1939-40 *Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Princeton University 1940-41 *Allan Nevins, Columbia University 1941-42 Vacant 1942-43 *Walter Prescott Webb, University of Texas 1943-44 Vacant 1944-45 *Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker, Princeton University 1945-46 Vacant 1946-47 *Walt Whitman Rostow, University of Texas 1947-48 *David Morris Potter, Yale University 1948-49 Louis M Hacker, Columbia University 1949-50 Merrill Jensen, University of Wisconsin 1950-51 *Charles Sackett Sydnor, Duke University 1951-52 *Lawrence Henry Gipson, Lehigh University 1952-53 *Henry Steele Commager, Columbia University 1953-54 *Ray Allen Billington, Northwestern University 1954-55 *Comer Vann Woodward, The Johns Hopkins University 1955-56 Frank Burt Freidel, Jr, Harvard University 1956-57 Arthur E Bestor, Jr, University of Illinois 1957-58 *Walter T Johnson, University of Chicago 1958-59 Arthur Stanley Link, Northwestern University 1959-60 David Herbert Donald, Columbia University 1960-61 George Edwin Mowry, University of California (Los Angeles) 1961-62 Kenneth Milton Stampp, University of California (Berkeley) 1962-63 Richard Nelson Current, University of Wisconsin 1963-64 Frank Everson Vandiver, Rice University Lecture: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate State 1964-65 Allan Nevins, Huntington Library
*Deceased Harmsworth Professors (American History) at Oxford
1965-66 Bell Irvin Wiley, Emory University 1966-67 *Thomas Harry Williams, Louisiana State University 1967-68 *Don Edward Fehrenbacher, Stanford University 1968-69 Fletcher Melvin Green, University of North Carolina 1969-70 David Brion Davis, Cornell University 1970-71 Charles Grier Sellers, University of California (Berkeley) 1971-72 William Edward Leuchtenburg, Columbia University 1972-73 Oscar Handlin, Harvard University 1973-74 Carl Neumann Degler, Stanford University 1974-75 Richard C Wade, City University of New York 1975-76 Jack P Greene, The Johns Hopkins University 1976-77 John Morton Blum, Yale University 1977-78 Wille Lee Rose,The Johns Hopkins University 1978-79 Norman A Graebner, University of Virginia 1979-80 Eric Louis McKitrick, Columbia University England and America in the 1790’s: A Critical Interlude 1980-81 Morton Keller, Brandeis University The Historical Sources of Urban Personality: Boston, New York, Philadelphia 1981-82 James Tyler Patterson, Brown University Wealth and Poverty in Modern America: the 1960’s and 1970’s 1982-83 Samuel Pfrimmer Hays, University of Pittsburg 1983-84 John Willard Shy, University of Michigan Two Kinds of History: Beard, Bailyn, and the Origins of the United States
*Deceased Harmsworth Professors (American History) at Oxford
1984-85 Joseph Morgan Kousser, California Institute of Technology Dead End: The Development of Litigation on Racial Discrimination in Schools in 19th Century America 1985-86 David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University 1986-87 David Montgomery, Yale University The American Civil War and the meanings of ‘freedom’ 1987-88 *Richard Slator Dunn, University of Pennsylvania An Odd Couple: John Winthrop of Massachusetts and William Penn of Pennsylvania 1988-89 George M Fredrickson, Stanford University Black-white relations since emancipation: The search for a comparative perspective 1989-90 Daniel Walker Howe, University of California, Los Angeles Henry David Thoreau on the duty of civil disobedience 1990-91 Joyce Oldham Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles Without Resolution: the Jeffersonian Tension in American Nationalism 1991-92 James Aloysius Henretta, University of Maryland Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America 1992-93 John Lewis Gaddis, Ohio University On Contemporary History 1993-94 Eric Foner, Columbia University Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America 1994-95 Robert Dallek, University of California, Los Angeles Franklin D. Roosevelt as World Leader: Fifty Years After 1995-96 David M Kennedy, Stanford University Can the United States still afford to be a nation of immigrants? 1996-97 Robert Lawrence Middlekauff, University of California (Berkeley) Democracy in America before Tocqueville 1997-98 Ernest Richard May, Harvard University Shaping Forces in American Foreign Policy 1998-99 Alan Brinkley, Columbia University Imagining the Twentieth Century: Perspectives from Two Fins-de-Siècle
*Deceased Harmsworth Professors (American History) at Oxford
1999- *Robin William Winks, Yale University 2000 To Stimulate to Some Action: The Harmsworth Professorship 1920-2000 2000-01 Timothy Hall Breen, Northwestern University The Lockean Moment: The Language of Human Rights on the Eve of the American Revolution 2001-02 David A Hollinger, University of California (Berkeley) The Question of Ethno-racial Mixture in American History 2002-03 Melvyn P Leffler, University of Virginia 9/11 and the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy 2003-04 Richard R Beeman, University of Pennsylvania The Uncertain History of Democracy: A View from the Eighteenth Century (with some Concluding Speculations on the Twenty-First) 2004-05 Joel H Silbey, Cornell University The Party of Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln and the Emergence of the Republican Party before the Civil War 2005-06 Kathryn Kish Sklar, State University of New York, Binghamton The Centrality of Feminism in American Political History, 1776-2000 2006-07 Linda K Kerber, University of Iowa The Stateless as the Citizen’s Other: A View from U.S. History 2007-08 Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University Salvaging the American City in the Age of Mass Suburbanization 2008-09 Peter S Onuf, University of Virginia Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of American Democracy 2009-10 Robin Kelley, USC College He’s got the Whole World in His Hands: U.S. History and its Discontents in the Obama Era 2010-11 Ian Tyrrell, University of New South Wales Crisis of the Wasteful Nation: A Tale of Theodore Roosevelt and Environmental Alarmism in the Progressive Era 2011-12 Philip Morgan, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore A Tale of Two Hamiltons: North American-Caribbean Crossings’ 2012-13 Gary Gerstle Paradoxes of State Power in America
*Deceased Harmsworth Professors (American History) at Oxford
2013-14 Richard J. M. Blackett, Vanderbilt University The Underground Railroad and the Struggle Against Slavery 2014-15 Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University Constituting 'the People': Law's Empire and the American Imagination 2015-16 Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois Isolationism as an Urban Legend 2016-17 Alan Taylor, University of Virginia American Revolutions: Empires and Republics in North America, 1750-1804 2017-18 Elliott West, University of Arkansas Things Come Together: Science and the American West
*Deceased