Charlotte J. Erickson (October 22, 1923 – July 9, 2008) was an American historian.
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Early life and education

Erickson was born in

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a suburb of

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, where her father was a Swedish Lutheran minister. She graduated from Augustana College at

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in 1945, and from

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with a MA and a PhD. In 1944, when she attended the summer seminar of the

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. She studied at the

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, between 1948 and 1950, under the guidance of Professor T.S. Ashton and under Professor

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Career

In 1950 to 1952, she taught at

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. From 1976 to 1978, she was the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the

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. In 1982, she was the Paul Mellon chair of American History at

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. From 1983 to 1986, she was chair of the

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Personal life

In 1952, Erickson returned to England to marry Louis Watt; they had two sons,

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and David; their marriage was dissolved in 1992.

Awards

* 1966–67

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* 1990

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Works

* ''American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-5'', Harvard University Press, 1957 *''British industrialists: steel and hosiery, 1850-1950'' University Press, 1960 * ''Invisible Immigrants: the adaptation of English and Scottish immigrants in 19th-century America'' London School of Economics and Political Science; Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972, *''Leaving England: essays on British emigration in the nineteenth century'', Cornell University Press, 1994,

References

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