James M. Banner, Jr.
James M. Banner, Jr. (1935 - ) is a historian whose scholarly specialties are the history of the United States, of the discipline of history, and of historical thought. He has served in a number of different academic and public capacities.
Education[edit]
Born in New York City, he graduated in 1957 from Yale University. After service in the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence Corps in the United States and France, he earned his Ph.D. degree in 1968 at Columbia University under Richard Hofstadter and Eric L. McKitrick.
Career[edit]
From 1966 to 1980, Banner taught at Princeton University, where he attained the rank of associate professor and chaired the Program in American Civilization and the Program in Continuing Education. He resigned his professorship in 1980 to found the American Association for the Advancement of the Humanities. Subsequently, he was a book publisher for a research organization and a foundation executive. He is known for the creation of institutions, including the National History Center and the History News Service. He also was the founding chairman of New Jersey Common Cause and served on the National Governing Board of Common Cause from 1973 to 1979. The recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University, he was a Fulbright Scholar/Professor at Charles University, Prague, and is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and an elected fellow of the American Antiquarian Society.
Writings[edit]
Banner’s writings have been diverse and influential. In To the Hartford Convention, which Gordon S. Wood called “truly outstanding” and Jack P Greene termed “an essential contribution to the early political history of the new nation,” Banner tried to bring the Federalist Party back into consideration as fully committed to the principles of the American Revolution and the norms of republican government.[1] Diane Ravitch called The Elements of Teaching, which Banner wrote with Harold C. Cannon, “a true classic,” and Andrew Delbanco termed its second edition “a wise and wonderfully concise reflection on a subject about which one might think everything worth saying had already been said.” [2] Banner’s Being a Historian was characterized as “a remarkable work of analysis, advice, and warning.” [3]
Bibliography[edit]
Books[edit]
To the Hartford Convention: The Federalists and the Origins of Party Politics in Massachusetts, 1789 1815 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969)
Blacks in America: Bibliographical Essays, with James M. McPherson, Laurence B. Holland, Nancy J. Weiss, and Michael D. Bell (Garden City: Doubleday, 1971) Understanding the American Experience: Recent Interpretations, ed. with Barton J. Bernstein and Sheldon Hackney (2 vols.; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973)
The Elements of Teaching, with Harold C. Cannon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997; 2nd edition, 2017) The Elements of Learning, with Harold C. Cannon (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999) Becoming Historians, ed. with John R. Gillis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009) A Century of American Historiography, ed. James M. Banner, Jr. (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010) Being a Historian: An Introduction to the Professional World of History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012) Presidential Misconduct: from George Washington to Today (New York: The New Press, 2019
Principal Essays[edit]
"The Problem of South Carolina," in The Hofstadter Aegis: A Memorial, ed. by Stanley Elkins and Eric McKitrick (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), pp. 60 93.
"Historians and the Impeachment Inquiry: A Brief History and Prospectus," Reviews in American History, vol. 4 (June 1976), pp. 139 149.
"France and the Origins of American Political Culture," Virginia Quarterly Review (Autumn 1988), pp. 651 670.
“The Federalists—Still in Need of Reconsideration,” in Federalists Reconsidered, ed. by Doron Ben-Atar and Barbara B. Oberg (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), pp. 246-253.
“The Capital and the State: Washington D.C. and the Nature of American Government,” in A Republic for the Ages, ed. by Donald R. Kennon (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), pp. 64-86.
“Historian, Improvised,” in James M. Banner, Jr., and John R. Gillis, Becoming Historians (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), pp. 259-288.
References[edit]
- ↑ Gordon S. Wood, The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States (New York: Penguin Press, 2011), pp. 4, 339. New York Times Book Review, 17 May 1970, pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Diane Ravitch, statement on cover of The Elements of Teaching (2d ed.; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017). Andrew Delbanco, ibid., p. vii.
- ↑ Orville Vernon Burton, Journal of American History, v. 101 (March 2015), pp. 1226-1227.
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