Charles Grier Sellers

Charles Grier Sellers (born September 9, 1923 in Charlotte, North Carolina)[1] is an American historian.

For other American historian, see Charles Coleman Sellers.

Life

Sellers earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1945, where he lived in Grays Hall during his freshman year. His graduation was delayed until 1947 by service in the United States Army. He then received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950.

In 1950-1951, Sellers was an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Maryland, followed in 1951-1958 by Princeton University. In 1958 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, getting promoted to full professor. In 1960-1961 he was honored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 1963 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1964 he was a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico. In 1970-1971 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Sellers was a member of the Southern Historical Association.[2]

Sellers was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi airport on 21 July 1961, as a part of the Freedom Rides (profiled in Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders).[3]

Sellers is an avid birder, and in 1937, at age 14 founded the Mecklenburg Audubon Club with Elizabeth Clarkson and Beatrice Potter, which later became the Mecklenburg Audubon Society. [4]

Awards

Works
  • James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843. Princeton University Press. 1957.
  • Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1960). "The Travail of Slavery". The Southerner as American. E. P. Dutton.
  • Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1961). Andrew Jackson, Nullification and the State-Rights Tradition. Chicago: Rand McNally.
  • The Market versus the Agrarian Republic in "A Synopsis of American History", 1st ed. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1963.
  • James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843-1846. Princeton University Press. 1966. (Bancroft Prize)
  • Andrew Jackson: A Profile. Hill and Wang. 1971. ISBN 978-0-8090-6051-1.
  • Charles G. Sellers, "Boom for President," in Charles Sellers, ed., Andrew Jackson: A Profile (New York: Hill and Wang, 1971), 57-80.
  • Charles Grier Sellers; Henry Farnham May; Neil R. McMillen (1974). A Synopsis of American History. Chicago: I.R. Dee. Rand McNally. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5. (7th Edition 1992)
  • As It Happened: A History of the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1975. ISBN 978-0-07-056179-3.
  • The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-503889-7.

References
  1. nature.berkeley.edu
  2. "Historical News and Notices". The Journal of Southern History. 25 (1): 150–155. February 1959. JSTOR 2954507.
  3. http://crdl.usg.edu/people/s/sellers_charles_grier/?Welcome
  4. https://www.meckbirds.org/about
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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