JAMES A. HENRETTA                                                                 Priscilla Alden Burke Professor of History

                                                                                                                                                           

DEGREES

 

            B.A.                              Swarthmore College                              1962

            M.A.                             Harvard University                                1963

            Ph.D                            Harvard University                                 1968

            M.A. (HON.)                  Oxford University                                 1991

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

            Asst. Lecturer in American Studies                     Sussex University, England       1966-1968                                                                         

 

            Assistant Professor of History                            Princeton University                   1968-1971

 

            Professor of History                                           UCLA                                        1973-1978                                                                         

 

            Visiting Professor                                              Columbia University                   Fall, 1979

 

            Professor of History & Director, Program            Boston University                      1978-1985

                        in American Studies

 

            Burke Professor of History                                 University of Maryland               1985-present

                                                    

            Harmsworth Professor of American History         Oxford University                       1991-92

 

           

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

 

            Phi Beta Kappa                                                 1962

            Paul Hyland Harris Fellowship, Harvard Univ.      1963-1965

            Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship            1965-1966

 

            Fulbright Senior Scholar in History, Australia       1972

            Charles Warren Fellow, Harvard University          1975-76

 

            Liberal Arts Fellow, Harvard Law School             1984-1985

            NEH Fellow, American Antiquarian Society         1985

            ACLS Research Fellowship                               1984-1985

 

            UMCP Graduate School Research Fellowship    1989-1990

            UMCP Distinguished Scholar Teacher                1994-1995

            Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship                   1995-1996

            National Humanities Center Fellowship               2002-2003

           


 

PUBLICATIONS

                                                                               Books

Co-editor (with Jürgen Heideking), Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850

            Cambridge University Press, 2001

 

America: A Concise History (Co-authored with David Brody and Lynn Dumenil), Bedford Books, 1998, 2nd ed., 2001

 

Co-Editor: (With Michael G. Kammen and Stanley N. Katz), The Transformation of Early American History:

              Society, Authority, and Ideology, A. A. Knopf, 1991

 

The Origins of American Capitalism, Northeastern University Press, 1991

 

Evolution and Revolution:  American Society, 1600-1820 (Co-author Gregory H. Nobles), D.C. Heath

            & Co., 1987

 

America's History (Co-authored with David Brody and Lynn Dumenil) The Dorsey Press,

   1987, 2nd ed. Worth Publishers, 1993, 3rd ed. Worth Publishers, 1997, 4th edition, Bedford

             Books, 2000, 5th edition, Bedford Books, July 2003 (2004 copyright)

 

The Evolution of American Society, 1700-1815:  An Interdisciplinary Analysis, D.C. Heath and Co., 1973

 

"Salutary Neglect":  Colonial Administration under the Duke of Newcastle, Princeton University Press, 1972

 

  

                                               Forthcoming Publications and Work in Progress

 

"The Liberal State in America: New York, 1820-1970," (book manuscript in progress)

           

"Charles Evans Hughes and the Strange Death of Liberal America" (article under consideration)

 

"Magistrates, Lawyers, Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America," (forthcoming in the Cambridge History of American Law, edited by Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg)

                          
"Liberalism," The Encyclopedia of New York State (forthcoming, Syracuse University Press)

 

"Martin Van Buren: The Politician as President," America's Lawyer-Presidents, ed., Norman Gross

         (Northwestern University Press, forthcoming)

 

                                                                         Major Articles

 

"Isaac Sherman and the Trials of Gilded Age Liberalism," American Nineteenth Century History, 4 (May

             2003), 77-98.

 

"The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860"  in Heideking and Henretta, eds., Republicanism and

            Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750-1850.

 

"The Birth of American Liberalism: New York, 1820-1860," in Ronald Hagenbüchle and Joseph

            Raab, eds., Negotiations of America's National Identity (Tübingen, 2000), I, 296-312.

 

"Martin Van Buren: From Politician to Statesman," in Alan Brinkley and David Dyer, eds., The Reader's

            Companion to the American Presidency (Houghton Mifflin: Boston, 2000), 111-122.

 

"The `Market' in the Early Republic," Journal of the Early Republic, 18 (Summer 1998), 289-304.

 

"The Strange Birth of Liberal America: Michael Hoffman and the New York Constitution of 1846," New York

History, 77 (April 1996), 151-176.

 

"The Protestant Ethic and the Reality of Capitalism in Colonial America," in Hartmut Lehmann and

            Guenther Roth,  eds.,  Weber's Protestant Ethic: Origins, Evidence, Contexts (New York, 1993),

            pp. 327-346.

 

"Rethinking the State Constitutional Tradition," in Rutgers Law Journal, 22 (Fall, 1991), 1-22

 

"The Rise and Decline of Democratic-Republicanism: Political Rights in New York and the Several

   States, 1800-1915", Albany Law Review (December, 1989), 357-40l. Republished in Paul

            Finkelman and Stephen Gottlieb, eds., A Usable Past:  Rights in the State Constitutional Tradition

            (University of Georgia Press, 1991)

 

"The Transition to Capitalism in America," in Henretta, Kammen, and Katz, eds., The Transformation of

            Early American History (New York, 1991), 222-243.

 

"The Slow Triumph of Liberal Individualism:  Law and Politics in New York, 1780-1850," in Richard O.

            Curry and Eugene Goodheart, eds., American Chameleon:  Individualism in United States

            History (Kent University Press, 1991). pp. 87-106           

 

"The Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Civil Liberties:  From 'Rights in Property' to 'Property in Rights',"

            This Constitution (Fall, 1991)

 

"The War for Independence and American Economic Development" in Ronald Hoffman, John McCusker,

             and Russell Menard, eds., The Economy of Revolutionary America (Univ. of Virginia, 1987), 32-75.

 

"Wealth and Social Structure," in Jack P. Greene and J. R. Pole, editors, Colonial British America: 

            Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era, (Johns Hopkins, 1983), 262-289.

 

"Social History as Lived and Written," American Historical Review, 84 (December, 1979), 1293-1333.

 

"Families and Farms:  Mentalité in Pre-Industrial America," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., XXXV

            (January, 1978), 3-32.  [Chosen in 1993 as one of the eleven most influential articles published

            in the Quarterly between 1943 & 1993]

 

"The Study of Social Mobility:  Ideological Assumptions and Conceptual Bias," Labor History, XVIII

                     (Spring, 1977), 165-177.

 

"Economic Development and Social Structure in Colonial Boston," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser.,

            XXII (January, 1965), 75-92.

 

Review Essays

 

"The Morphology of New England Society in the Colonial Period," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, II

            (1971), 379-398.

 

"The Reconceptualization of Anglo-American History," Reviews in American History, II (September, 1974),

            358-363.

 

"'Modernization'  Toward a False Synthesis," Reviews in American History,  (December, 1977), 445-452.

 

"The Anthropology of an Elite," Reviews in American History, VII (September, 1979), 363-368.

 

"Community Studies in the Mid-Atlantic," Working Papers from the Regional Economic History Center,

            III (1980), 58-65.

 

"Braudel Moves West," Reviews in American History, X (June, 1982), 158-162.

 

"Religion and Radical Culture in England and America:  A Commentary," in Margaret Jacob and James

            Jacob, eds., The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism (London, 1983), 268-274.

 

"Ethnography, Drama, and Historical Method," Past and Present, (November, 1983), 158-161.

 

"The Stamp Act Resolutions and the Declaration of Independence:  A Documentary Explication" in David

            Nasaw, ed., The Course of United States History (Dorsey Press, 1987), 102-121.

 

"The Making of An American Community:  A Thirty-Year Retrospective," Reviews In American History

            (Sept. 1988)

 

"A Radical Constitutional Tradition?" Radical History Review, 42 (Fall, 1988), 41-47.

 

"Lost Utopias and Present Realities," American Quarterly (December, 1988), 537-543.

 

"Revolutionary War (1775-1783): Domestic Course," The Oxford Companion to American Military History

            (Oxford University Press, 1997)

 

"American Revolution," and “The Colonial Period" published in Encarta (Microsoft's CD-ROM

            encyclopedia, 1999  edition)

 

“Feudal Law And Party Politics In New York,” in Journal of the Early Republic, 21 (Fall, 2001),  537-541.

 

 

SCHOLARLY PAPERS AND CONFERENCES (1998-2003)

                                                                          1998

 

"Courts and Parties: The Early American State," paper presented at Workshop on "State and Society

in Antebellum America," Woodrow Wilson Center and Center on Comparative Legal History, University of

Chicago, May, 1998.

 

Colonial Williamsburg, History Forum, November 1998: "Capitalizing on Class."

 

                                                                     1999

 

Winterthur Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, January 1999:  Lecture:  "The Transit of Material Culture

from England to North America, 1600-1750"

 

Society of Historians of the Early Republic, Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, July 1999,

Commentator on session: "Men, Women, and the Market Economy"

 

2000-01

 

Houston Community College, Houston TX., March 2000.  Lecture: "Social Conflict, the Expansion of State Power, and the Rise of Liberal Constitutionalism: New York, 1810-1860."

 

Texas Community College Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. , March 2000  Address: "The Year 2000 and the Reinvention of American History."

 

Lehman Center, Columbia University, April, 2001 Conference Paper: “Liberalism in New York, 1900-1940”

 

2002

 

American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, January, San Francisco.  Paper: "Isaac Sherman and the Trials of Gilded Age Liberalism"

2003

 

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, January, Paper: "Isaac Sherman and the Trials of Gilded Age Liberalism"

 

North Carolina Triangle Early American History Seminar,  February 2003.  Paper: "Magistrates, Lawyers,

Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America"

 

Washington Area Seminar in Early American History, October 2003.  Paper: "Magistrates, Lawyers,

Legislators: The Three Legal Systems of Early America"

 

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND OFFICES

 

Board of Editors The Journal of Social History, 1978-present.

 

Board of Editors Journal of the Early Republic, 1998-2002

                        Chair, Prize Committee for Best Article in JER, 1999-2000

 

Organization of American Historians:   Nominating Committee, 1978-80,  Chair, 1979-80

                                                         Membership Committee, 1990-93

                                                         Program Committee for 1995 Meeting.

 

American Studies Association:  Program Committee for 1981 Convention

                                                Chair, John Hope Franklin Prize Committee, 1988.

 

Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, Advisory Panel on Museums, 1981-82.

 

National Endowment for the Humanities  History and Museums Panel, 1986.

 

American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA.  Member, Committee on Award of NEH and AAS

            Fellowships, 1987-1989.

 

Institute of Early American History and Culture: 

                                       Douglas Adair Prize Committee, 1987, 1988, and 1990.

                                       Committee to Evaluate Editor of Publications, 1990.

                                                Co-Chair, Program Committee, 8th Annual Conference, 2002

 

American Society for Legal History, Program Committee, 1989-90 Annual Meeting.

 

American Historical Association: Committee on the Harmsworth Professorship 1993-1995

                                                Littleton-Griswold Prize Committee, 1994-96

                                                Program Committee for 1999 Annual Meeting

                                                Co-chair, Program Committee for Year 2000 Meeting

 

 

Revised September 2003