Donald C. Swift

Background

Donald C. Swift was born on June 11, 1937, in Piqua, Ohio, United States to the family of a tool-and-die maker Charles J. Swift and a homemaker Margaret De Brosse.

Education

Donald C. Swift attended Athenaeum of Ohio in 1955-1956. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Ohio University in 1960. He earned a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Delaware in 1962 and 1967 respectively.

Career

Donald C. Swift is a Professor Emeritus of History at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. He taught there since 1968 and retired in 1999. His special research interests are American religious, cultural, and social history. He was a member of an interdisciplinary team that teaches ethics and American education and of such organizations as the Organization of American Historians, the Society for the History of the Early Republic, and the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. He has authored two books: Politics and Society in America, 1607-1865, published in 1976 and Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1775-1997, published in 1998.

Achievements

• Donald C. Swift managed to achieve recognition as a historian specialized in American religious, cultural, and social history. His competence and professionalism are praised among colleagues and students and they made him a demanded specialist and an essential part of Edinboro University faculty.

Works

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  • Religion and the American Experience: A Social and Cultural History, 1765-1996

    (Religion in the USA manifests itself in many forms and th...)

    1998
  • Politics and society in America, 1607-1877 1976

Membership

• Organization of American Historians , United States

• Society for the History of the Early Republic , United States

• Association for Religion and Intellectual Life , United States

Interests

• Philosophers & Thinkers

  Paul Tillich

Connections

Donald C. Swift married Anne McCauley on August 20, 1960. They have three children: Mark Swift, Connie Swift Monroe, and Annemarie Swift Donnelly.

Father:

Charles J. Swift

Mother:

Margaret De Brosse

Wife:

Anne McCauley

Son:

Mark Swift

Daughter:

Connie Swift Monroe

Daughter:

Annemarie Swift Donnelly

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 166 This volume of Contemporary Authors contains biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers.
  1998