Eric McKitrick

Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 - April 24, 2002) was an American historian, best known for The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994.

Life

McKitrick was born in Battle Creek, Michigan. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in 1949, an M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at the University of Chicago and at Rutgers University's Douglass College in the 1950s, and Columbia University in 1960-1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history. In 1979-80 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

McKitrick reviewed for The New York Review of Books

He died in New York City, aged 82.

Awards

• 1960 Dunning Prize
• 1994 Bancroft Prize

Works

• (reprinted 1988)