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American historian (born 1942)
This article is about the U.S. historian. For the British writer Thomas Charles Louis Holt, see
Tom Holt .
Thomas Cleveland Holt (born November 30, 1942) is an American historian, who is the
James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the
University of Chicago . He has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the
African Diaspora . He served as president of the American Historical Association in 1994.
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[2]
He taught at
Howard University ,
Harvard University , the
University of California, Berkeley , and the
University of Michigan .
[3] He was born in
Danville, Virginia .
[4]
He was elected a Member of the
American Philosophical Society in 2016.
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Awards
In 1978 Holt was awarded the
Southern Historical Association 's Charles S. Sydnor Prize for his first book, Black Over White .
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A past president of the
American Historical Association , Holt was a Fellow of the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1987 to 1988. Holt became a
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1990.
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In 1994, President
Bill Clinton named Holt to the National Council on Humanities.
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He was elected a fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
[9]
He was a Citigroup Fellow at the
American Academy in Berlin , Germany, for Fall 2008.
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Works
The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor, and Politics in Jamaica and Britain, 1832–1938 (
Johns Hopkins University Press ), 1992, winner of the
Elsa Goveia Prize awarded by the Association of Caribbean Historians.
Black Over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina During Reconstruction (
University of Illinois Press ).
"Nathan I. Huggins Lectures", The Problem of Race in the 21st Century (
Harvard University Press ), 2000
With Frederick Cooper and Rebecca Jarvis Scott,
Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies , UNC Press, 2000,
ISBN
978-0-8078-4854-8 .
Children of Fire: a History of African Americans (
Hill & Wang ), 2010
The Movement: The African American Struggle for Civil Rights (
Oxford University Press ), 2021,
ISBN
0197525822 .
References
^
Thomas C. Holt biography
Archived 2016-03-15 at the
Wayback Machine , The University of Chicago.
^
Thomas C. Holt , Department of History, The University of Chicago.
^
Thomas C. Holt.
Archived July 2, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
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"Holt, Thomas Cleveland" , Reports of the President and of the Treasurer , John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1988, p. 53.
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"Newly Elected - April 2016" , American Philosophical Society.
^
"Awards — The Charles S. Sydnor Award"
Archived May 13, 2016, at the
Wayback Machine , The Southern Historical Association.
^ John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
Fellows List
Archived March 7, 2012, at the
Wayback Machine
^
"Holt named to National Council on Humanities" , University of Chicago Chronicle ,
Vol. 14, No. 2, August 18, 1994.
^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Class of 2003 - Fellows
^ American Academy in Berlin,
Citigroup Fellow Class of Fall 2008: Thomas Holt
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