Peter Kolchin

Peter Kolchin is an American historian.

Life

He graduated from Columbia University, and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D. in 1970. He teaches at the University of Delaware.

Awards

• 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History
• 1988 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
• Charles Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association

Works

• First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. University of Alabama Press. 1972. (Revised Ed. 2008, ISBN 9780817355357)
• Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Harvard University Press. 1987. ISBN 9780674920989.
• American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993, revised ed. 2003) ISBN 9780140241501
• A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. LSU Press. 2003. ISBN 9780807128664.

• Helen Saltz Jacobson, ed. (2002). "Foreword". Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824. Translator Helen Saltz Jacobson. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300097160.
• "The Tragic Era? Interpreting Southern Reconstruction in Comparative Perspective". The Meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1992. ISBN 9780822954798. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)