James T. Patterson is an American historian, who was the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University for 30 years. He was educated at Harvard University. His research interests include po
Patterson at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in 2013
The Oxford History of the United States is an ongoing multivolume narrative history of the United States published by Oxford University Press. Conceived in the 1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-
James T. Patterson (historian)
…specter, and how it reveals divisions in American life. In 1997, Patterson published Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974, volume 10 of the Oxford History of the United States, covering political, cultural, and economic events of the postwar period through the resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. It was praised by…
First edition cover of The Glorious Cause, the first book published in the series