Harvard Sitkoff

Harvard Sitkoff (born 1945) is an American historian.

Life

He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.[1] His father was a trusts and estates lawyer, and his mother died of cancer when he was seventeen. Sitkoff has named both these factors as influential in his choice of career, describing how he 'had always typed wills for his father’s busy law practice, and then one of the wills he typed was his mother’s.'[2] Although he undertook his graduate education at the University of Chicago, he has described being ' "aggressively, heavy-handedly" persuaded to go there, rather than Stanford.[2]

Career

He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire,[1][3] and has been described as an expert in trusts and estates, focussing on private law.[2] He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammed Ali,[4] and has also written on the politics of Martin Luther King.[5] Describing that period, Sitkoff has called the summer of 1967 "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed.."[6]

Bibliography

Some of his books are:

  • The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
  • King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
  • A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
  • The Struggle for Black Equality
  • Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
  • Fifty Years Later: New Deal Evaluated
  • Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America

References

  1. 1 2 "Harvard Sitkoff". OverDrive. Retrieved 30 January 2017. Harvard Sitkoff, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire [...] He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.
  2. 1 2 3 "A Trust and Estates lawyer's 'last lecture': 'Hope for the best; plan for the worst' - Harvard Law Today".
  3. ↑ "Noted Civil Rights Scholar Authors Acclaimed Biography of MLK". www.newswise.com.
  4. ↑ "Muhammad Ali dies at 74". 4 June 2016.
  5. ↑ Jilani2016-01-18T15:41:48+00:00, Zaid JilaniZaid. "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism". The Intercept.
  6. ↑ Winkler, Adam. "The Secret History of Guns".
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