Jay Gitlin is an American historian. He is a professor of North American history at

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, associate director of the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers & Borders, and an expert on French North American history. He is also the Coordinator of the Committee on Canadian Studies at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, a faculty affiliate of the Yale University Native American Cultural Center, and founder of the ''Yale Journal of Canadian Studies''.

Education

Gitlin received his BA, MM, and PhD degrees at Yale University.

Awards and honors

Gitlin won the 2010 Alf Andrew Heggoy Prize for the best book in French colonial history from the French Colonial Historical Society for his book ''The Bourgeois Frontier''.

Books

*''Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America’s Western Past,'' ( W. W. Norton & Company, 1992). *''The Bourgeois Frontier: French Towns, French Traders & American Expansion'' (

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, 2010) *''Country Acres and Cul-de-sacs: Reimagining Connecticut, 1938 to 1952'' (

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, 2018) *''French St. Louis'' (

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, 2021)

References

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