Peter Kolchin

Peter Kolchin (born June 3, 1943) is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from Columbia University, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in 1970. He teaches at the University of Delaware.^[1][2]

Awards

• 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History
• 1988 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians ^[3]
• Charles Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association

Works

• First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. University of Alabama Press. 1972.  (Revised Ed. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8173-5535-7)
• Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Harvard University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-674-92098-9. 
• American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993, revised ed. 2003) ISBN 978-0-14-024150-1
• A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. LSU Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8071-2866-4. 

• Helen Saltz Jacobson, ed. (2002). "Foreword". Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824. Translator Helen Saltz Jacobson. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09716-0. 
• Frank McGlynn, Seymour Drescher, ed. (1992). "The Tragic Era? Interpreting Southern Reconstruction in Comparative Perspective". The Meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5479-8. 

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