He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1970, received honorary degrees from universities in the United States and abroad, and was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for History in Rome in 1990. Of the numerous books he wrote, translated, and edited, three of the most important are his Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France (1939) Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution (1941, 1989) and his two-volume Age of the Democratic Revolution (1959, 1964), the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize. After his retirement he lived in Princeton, where he was affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study, and then in a retirement community in Newtown, Pennsylvania.
Louis to serve as dean of arts and sciences, and in 1969 he resumed his career in teaching and research, this time at Yale. In 1963 he moved to Washington University in St. From 1936 to 1963 he taught at Princeton University, taking leave during World War II to work on historical projects in Washington, DC. After graduating from the University of Chicago, he received his PhD from Cornell University in 1934. He has been a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study and a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and he served as president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has also co-edited several books, including a collection of essays on historical education in America and A Companion to Western Historical Thought (2002). His writings include Threshold of a New World: Intellectuals and the Exile Experience in Paris, 1830- 1848 (1988) Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Cultures and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (1996), which won the Gilbert Chinard Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies and the Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and Nationalism in Europe and America: Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775 (2011). He has served two terms as chair of his department and received two awards for distinguished undergraduate teaching. Since 1986 he has been a member of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently a professor of history and the director of Carolina Public Humanities- a program that serves K-12 educators and other communities outside the university. After completing his graduate studies, he taught at Stanford University and Northwestern University.
Before entering Cornell, he was a teacher in Hong Kong and he traveled widely in Asia. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1983. Lloyd Kramer was born in Maryville, Tennessee, and graduated from Maryville College. A History of Europe in the Modern World, 12eĬHAPTER 2: The Upheaval in Western Christendom, 1300 - 1560ĬHAPTER 3: The Atlantic World, Commerce, and Wars of Religion, 1560 - 1648ĬHAPTER 4: The Growing Power of Western Europe, 1640 - 1715ĬHAPTER 5: The Transformation of Eastern Europe, 1648 - 1740ĬHAPTER 6: The Scientific View of the WorldĬHAPTER 7: The Global Struggle for Wealth and EmpireĬHAPTER 11: Industries, Ideas, and the Struggle for Reform, 1815 - 1848ĬHAPTER 12: Revolutions and the Reimposition of Order, 1848 - 1870ĬHAPTER 13: The Consolidation of Large Nation-States, 1859 - 1871ĬHAPTER 14: Europe's Economic and Political Ascendancy, 1871 - 1914ĬHAPTER 15: European Society and Culture, 1871 - 1914ĬHAPTER 16: Europe’s Colonial Empires and Global Dominance, 1871 - 1914ĬHAPTER 18: The Russian Revolution and the Emergence of the Soviet UnionĬHAPTER 19: Democracy, Anti-Imperialism, and the Economic Crisis after the First World WarĬHAPTER 20: Democracy and Dictatorship in the 1930sĬHAPTER 22: The Cold War and Reconstruction after the Second World WarĬHAPTER 23: Decolonization and the Breakup of the European EmpiresĬHAPTER 24: Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New European EconomyĬHAPTER 25: The International Revolt against Soviet CommunismĬHAPTER 26: Europe and the Changing Modern World
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