Reed Browning (born 1938, New York City) is an American retired professor of history. Browning gained his B.A. from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. He also studied at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich histor ...

. He taught at Amherst College from 1964 to 1967 and then spent forty years as an academic at

Kenyon College Kenyon College is a private liberal arts college in Gambier, Ohio. It was founded in 1824 by Philander Chase. Kenyon College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Kenyon has 1,708 undergraduates enrolled. Its 1,000-acre campus is se ...

, from which he retired in 2007. Whilst at Kenyon College he served as provost and briefly as acting president. Recognition of his teaching excellence include the Senior Trustee Teaching Excellence Award (2001) and the Senior Cup (1981). He has written books on British and European history, including ''The Duke of Newcastle'' (1975), ''Political and Constitutional Ideas of the Court Whigs'' (1982), and ''The War of the Austrian Succession'' (1994). A baseball fan, he has also penned two sports history books: ''Cy Young: A Baseball Life'' (2000) and ''Baseball’s Greatest Season: 1924'' (2003). His peer-reviewed journal articles include: "The Duke of Newcastle and the Imperial Election Plan 1749-1754", published in ''

Journal of British Studies The publication of thNorth American Conference on British Studies ''The Journal of British Studies'' is an academic journal aimed at scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. The journal was co-founded in 1961 by Geor ...

'', Volume 7 (1967), pp. 28–47; and "New Views on the Silesian Wars", published in '' Journal of Military History'', Volume 69, Number 2, April 2005, pp. 521–534.

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Reed Browning's Faculty Page, Kenyon College
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