Background

Stampp, Kenneth Milton was born on July 12, 1912 in Milwaukee. Son of Oscar M. and Eleanor (Schmidt) Stampp.

Education

Bachelor of Philosophy Wisconsin, 1935; Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, 1937; Doctor of Philosophy, University Wisconsin, 1942; Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1961; Doctor of Humane Letters, University Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1981.

Career

Instructor history, U. Arkansas, 1941-1942; assistant professor of history, U. Maryland., 1942-1945; associate professor, U. Maryland., 1945-1946; assistant professor of history, University of California at Berkeley, 1946-1949; associate professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1949-1951; professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1951-1957; Morrison professor American history, University of California at Berkeley, 1957-1983; professor emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, since 1983. Visiting lecturer Harvard University, 1955, University of Wisconsin, summers 1945, 46, 49, 52, U. Colorado, summer 1958, Colgate University, 1981, Williams College, 1983. Fulbright lecturer Amerika-Institut, U. Munich, 1957, 68, 72.

Commonwealth Fund lecturer U. London, 1960. Harmsworth professor American history Oxford, 1961-1962. Visiting fellow All Souls College, 1979.

Achievements

• Kenneth Milton Stampp has been listed as a noteworthy Historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The peculiar institution: Slavery in the ante-bellum South

    (Winner of the Lincoln Prize    Stampp’s classic study ...)

  • Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South

    (Winner of the Lincoln Prize    Stampp’s classic study ...)

  • The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877

    (Stampp's classic work offers a revisionist explanation fo...)

  • And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860--1861 (Louisiana Paperbacks, L53)

    ("One of the most scholarly and provocative books written ...)

  • And the War Came: The North and the Secession Crisis, 1860-61

    (Published by Phoenix Books / The University of Chicago Pr...)

  • The National Experience: A History of the United States (Pt. 1 & 2)

    (A history of the United States with an emphasis on public...)

  • The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War

    (A collection of essays by a master historian. Amongst the...)

  • Indiana Politics During the Civil War

    (a classic Civil War study)

  • & The War Came The North & the Secession Crisis
  • And the war came; the North and the secession crisis, 1860-61
  • The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877
  • Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South by Kenneth M. Stampp (1989-12-17)
  • The Causes of the Civil War (Touchstone) by Stampp, Kenneth M. (1992) Paperback
  • The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp (1980-05-22)
  • The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 by Kenneth Milton Stampp (1965-03-30)

Membership

Member American, Southern history associations, Society American Historians, Organisation American Historians(president 1977-1978), Massachusetts History Society, American Antiquarian Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Katherine Mitchell, December 26,1939 (divorced). Children: Kenneth Mitchell, Sara Katherine. Married Isabel M. Macartney-Filgate, July 4, 1962.

Children: Jennifer, Michele.

Father:

Oscar M. Stampp

Mother:

Eleanor (Schmidt) Stampp

Spouse:

Katherine Mitchell

Spouse:

Isabel M. Macartney-Filgate

child:

Jennifer Stampp

child:

Sara Katherine Stampp

child:

Kenneth Mitchell Stampp

child:

Michele Stampp