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Bruce Kuklick

Bruce Kuklick

American historian (born 1941)

Bruce Kuklick (/ˈkʊklɪk/ KUUK-lik;[1] born March 3, 1941, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American historian. He currently serves as the Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in diplomatic and intellectual history of the United States and the history of philosophy.

He has written several books on those subjects, including Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine, which was described as "a biography of Fontaine is as good a story as that life itself."[2]

Selected publications

  • American policy and the Division of Germany: the clash with Russia over Reparations, 1972
  • Puritans in Babylon – the Ancient Near East & American Intellectual Life 1880–1930: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930, 1996
  • Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008.
  • Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 2015. Co-author with Emmanuel Gerard.

References

  1. [1]
    "Kuklick Introduction". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-20. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. [2]
    Romano, Carlin (December 28, 2008). "A quiet scholar who broke barriers". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 2009-06-18.


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