Edward A. Purcell Jr. (born

Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, abbreviated KC or KCMO, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by List of cities in Missouri, population and area. The city lies within Jackson County, Missouri, Jackson, Clay County, Missouri, Clay, and Pl ...

) 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 ...

Life

Purcell grew up in

. He attended

Rockhurst College Rockhurst University is a private Jesuit university in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 as Rockhurst College, Rockhurst University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. It enrolled 2,980 students in 2019. History In 1909, Fr. ...

, where he received a B.A. in 1962, then went on to the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

, earning an M.A. in American history in 1964. He received a Ph.D. in 1968 from the

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, then taught at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

and at

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

before attending

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

, where he received a J.D. in 1979. He is the Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor at

New York Law School New York Law School (NYLS) is a private, American law school in the Tribeca neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. The third oldest law school in New York City, its history predates its official founding in 1891 by Theodore William Dwight, T ...

. His work has appeared in ''Virginia Law Review,'' ''The University of Pennsylvania Law Review,'' ''UCLA Law Review'', ''American Historical Review'', the ''Journal of American History,'' and the ''American Quarterly''.

Awards

* 2013 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the

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* Charles Warren Fellow in American Legal History at

* 1972

Frederick Jackson Turner Award The Frederick Jackson Turner Award is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history The history of the present-day United States began in roughly 15,000 BC with the arrival of Peopl ...

* American Bar Association Silver Gavel Certificate of Merit *

Supreme Court Historical Society The Supreme Court Historical Society (SCHS) describes itself as "a Washington, D.C.–based private, nonpartisan, not for profit 501(c)(3) membership organization dedicated to preserving and communicating the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, in ...

’s Triennial Griswold Prize *

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’ Coif Triennial Book Award

Works

* * * * * * ''Progressive Lawyering, Globalization and Markets: Rethinking Ideology and Strategy'' (William S. Hein & Co., 2007) * ''Private Law and Social Inequality in the Industrial Age: Comparing Legal Cultures in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States'' (Oxford University Press, 2000)

References

21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1941 births Living people Rockhurst University alumni University of Kansas alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty Wellesley College faculty Harvard Law School alumni New York Law School faculty Historians from California American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub