Background
Gross, Robert Alan was born on February 17, 1945 in New Haven. Son of Samuel and Roslyn (Chadys) Gross.
( Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their ...)
Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.
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( Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their W...)
Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued now in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition with a new Foreword by Alan Taylor and a new Afterword by the author. On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the midst of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual capital of the new republic. The town--future home to Emerson, Thoreau, and Hawthorne--soon came to symbolize devotion to liberty, intellectual freedom, and the stubborn integrity of rural life. In The Minutemen and Their World, Robert Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and a compelling interpretation of the American Revolution as a social movement.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809001209/?tag=2022091-20
(In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebelli...)
In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context
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Gross, Robert Alan was born on February 17, 1945 in New Haven. Son of Samuel and Roslyn (Chadys) Gross.
Bachelor of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1966; Master of Arts (Woodrow Wilson national fellow), Columbia University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1976; Master of Arts (honorary), Amherst College, 1986.
General secretary United States Student Press Association, Washington, 1966-1967. Assistant editor Newsweek, New York City, 1968-1970. National Institute of Mental Health trainee in social history Columbia University, 1970-1972.
Adjunct assistant professor Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1973-1976. Assistant professor history and American studies Amherst College, 1976-1980, associate professor, 1980-1986, professor, 1986-1988. Professor American studies and history, director American studies College of William and Mary, 1988-1998, Forrest D. Murden professor American studies, 1992—2003.
James L. and Shirley A. Draper chair of early American history University Connecticut, since 2003. Professor American studies University Sussex, Brighton, England, 1981-1983. Visiting professor, director studies Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 1985.
Visiting associate professor Brandeis University, 1985. Core scholar New England and the Constitution, 1986-1988. American Studies specialist United States Information Agency, 1991-1992.
Director National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute, 1993. Fulbright chair of America studies Odense (Denmark) University, 1998-1999, Fulbright senior specialist (Brazil), 2003. Book review editor William and Mary quarterly, 1999-2002.
( Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their ...)
( Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their W...)
(In Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebelli...)
(8th printing 1978 paperback)
(Paperback)
Board directors Rare Brook School, since 2003. Fellow: Society of America Historians. Member: New England History Teachers Association (Kidger award 1987), Massachusetts History Society, American Antiquarian Society (chair program in the history of the book in American culture 1993-1998, council 1999—2002, Mellon Distinguished scholar in residence 2002-2003), American Studies Association (Mary C. Turple award 2001), Organization American Historians, American History Association, Colonial Society Massachusetts, Grolier Club, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Ann Leslie Goldman, May 22, 1966. Children: Matthew Benjamin, Stephen Alexander, Eleanor Elizabeth.