Bruce Kuklick ( ; born March 3, 1941, in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

. He currently serves as the Nichols Professor of American History at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, specializing in diplomatic and intellectual history of the United States and the

history of philosophy The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, religious traditions, and proverbial lor ...

. He has written several books on those subjects, including ''Black Philosopher, White Academy: The Career of William Fontaine'', which was described as "a biography of Fontaine is as good a story as that life itself."

Selected publications

*
American policy and the Division of Germany: the clash with Russia over Reparations
', 1972 * ''Puritans in Babylon – the Ancient Near East & American Intellectual Life 1880–1930: The Ancient Near East and American Intellectual Life, 1880-1930'', 1996 * * Co-author with Emmanuel Gerard.

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* 1941 births Living people University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Pennsylvania historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub