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-
First edition cover of The Glorious Cause, the first book published in the series
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
Oxford History of the United States
…series as The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846, and the press contracted Daniel Walker Howe to replace Sellers's contribution. Historian James T. Patterson replaced Leuchtenberg as author of the postwar history volume. Bruchey submitted his manuscript about economic history, but Woodward decided not to…
Patterson at the Miller Center of Public Affairs in 2013