Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History
1st Viscount Rothermere (1868-1940)
The Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship is an endowed chair in American history at the University of Oxford, tenable for one year.[1][2] The Harmsworth Professorship was established by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868 – 1940) in memory of his son Harold Vyvyan Alfred St George, who was killed in the First World War, and whose favorite subject was history.[3][4] Lord Rothermere also established a Harmsworth Professorship in imperial and naval history at Cambridge University in honour of his son Vere, who was killed in the same war.[5][6] The King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University was endowed by Sir Harold Harmsworth in memory of King Edward VII, who died in 1910.[7][8]
The Harmsworth Professorship was inaugurated in 1922 with an endowment of £20,000.[9][10] Holders of the chair are affiliated to Queen's College, Oxford and, since 2001, the Rothermere American Institute. The Rothermere American Institute also houses the Vere Harmsworth Library, named in honour of Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermere.[11]
The Harmsworth Professor is selected by the Electors of Oxford and a Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History at the American Historical Association, established in 1939.[12]
Holders of the Harmsworth Professorship
- Elliott West (2017)[13]
- Alan Taylor (2016)[13]
- Kristin L. Hoganson (2015)[13]
- Annette Gordon-Reed (2014)[13]
- Richard J.M. Blackett (2013)[13]
- Gary Gerstle (2012)[13]
- Philip D. Morgan (2011)[13]
- Ian R. Tyrrell (2010)[13]
- Robin Kelley (2009)[13]
- Peter S. Onuf (2008)[13]
- Lizabeth Cohen (2007)[13]
- Linda K. Kerber (2006)[13]
- Kathryn Kish Sklar (2005)[13][14]
- Joel H. Silbey (2004)[13]
- Richard R. Beeman (2003)[13]
- Melvyn P. Leffler (2002)[13]
- David Hollinger (2001)[13]
- T.H. Breen (2000)[13]
- Robin W. Winks (1999)[13]
- Alan Brinkley (1998)[13]
- Ernest May (1997)[13]
- Robert Middlekauff (1996)[13]
- David Kennedy (1995)[13]
- Robert Dallek (1994)[13]
- Eric Foner (1993)[13]
- John Lewis Gaddis (1992)[13]
- James A. Henretta (1991)[13]
- Joyce Appleby (1990)[13]
- Daniel Walker Howe (1989)[13]
- George M. Fredrickson (1988)[13]
- Richard Slator Dunn (1987)[13][15]
- David M. Kennedy (1986)[13]
- David Hackett Fischer (1985)[13]
- J. Morgan Kousser (1984)[13]
- John W. Shy (1983)[13]
- Samuel P. Hays (1982)[13]
- James T. Patterson (1981)[13]
- Morton Keller (1980)[13][16]
- Eric McKitrick (1979)[13]
- Norman Arthur Graebner (1978)[13][17]
- Willie Lee Nichols Rose (1977)[13][18]
- John Morton Blum (1976)[13]
- Jack P. Greene (1975)[13]
- Richard Clement Wade (1974)[13]
- Carl Degler (1973)[13]
- Oscar Handlin (1972)[13]
- William Leuchtenburg (1971)[13]
- Charles Grier Sellers (1970)[13]
- David Brion Davis (1969)[13]
- Fletcher Melvin Green (1968)[13][19]
- Don Fehrenbacher (1967)[13]
- T. Harry Williams (1966)[13]
- Bell I. Wiley (1965)[13]
- Allan Nevins (1964)[13]
- Frank Vandiver (1963)[13]
- Richard N. Current (1962)[13]
- Kenneth Stampp (1961)[13]
- George E. Mowry (1960)[13]
- David H. Donald (1959)[13]
- Arthur S. Link (1958)[13]
- Walter Johnson (1957)[13]
- Arthur Bestor (1956)[13]
- Frank Friedel (1955)[13]
- C. Vann Woodward (1954)[13]
- Ray Allen Billington (1953)[13]
- Henry Steele Commager (1952)[13]
- Lawrence H. Gipson (1951)[13]
- Charles S. Sydnor (1950)[13][20]
- Merrill Jensen (1949)[13]
- Louis M. Hacker (1948)[13][21]
- David M. Potter (1947)[13]
- Walt W. Rostow (1946)[13]
- Vacant (1945)
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1944)[13]
- Vacant (1943)
- Walter Prescott Webb (1942)[13]
- Vacant (1941)
- Allan Nevins (1940)[13]
- Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1939)[13]
- Robert McNutt McElroy (1925-1939)[13]
- Samuel E. Morison (1922-1925)[13]
References
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- ↑ "Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ↑ "Perspectives on History - AHA". Historians.org. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ↑ Kerber, Linda. "At Home in the World: The International Dimensions of the AHA". Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ↑ "Harold Harmsworth". Oxforddnb.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ↑ Boyce, D. George. "Harmsworth, Harold Sidney, first Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940), newspaper proprieto". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ↑ "Who's Who". Ukwhoswho.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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- ↑ "Harold Vyvyan Alfred St George Harmsworth". Christ Church Oxford, Registered Charity Number: 1143423. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ↑ "Vere Harmsworth Library". Rothermere American Institute. Retrieved 2012-11-21.
- ↑ "Committee on the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professorship in American History". American Historical Association. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
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- ↑ "Sklar, Kathryn Kish (1939–) - U.S. Women's History". Encyclopedia.jrank.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Guide, Richard Slator Dunn Papers, University of Pennsylvania University Archives". Archives.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Keller, Morton". Jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Norman Arthur Graebner (1915-2010) - AHA". Historians.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Rose, Willie Lee Nichols (1927-) - People and organisations". Trove.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ↑ "Green, Fletcher Melvin - NCpedia". Ncpedia.org. Retrieved 15 November 2017.
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