Joyce Appleby

{{Short description|American historian}}

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Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at UCLA. She was president of the Organization of American Historians (1991) and the American Historical Association (1997).

Life

Appleby was born in Omaha, Nebraska.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/02/books/joyce-appleby-historian-of-capitalism-and-american-identity-is-dead-at-87.html?_r=0 |title=Joyce Appleby, Historian of Capitalism and American Identity, Is Dead at 87 |first=Sewell |last=Chan |date=January 2, 2017 |work=The New York Times |access-date=January 6, 2017|url-access=subscription}} Her father was a businessman and she attended public schools in Omaha, Dallas, Kansas City, Evanston, Phoenix and Pasadena.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Appleby received her B.A. degree from Stanford University in 1950 and became a magazine writer in New York. Returning to academia, she earned her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate School in 1966.

Appleby was the widow of Andrew Bell Appleby, a professor of European history at San Diego State University. Her first marriage to Mark Lansburgh ended in divorce. She had three children: Ann Lansburgh Caylor, Mark Lansburgh and Frank Bell Appleby.

Appleby died on December 23, 2016, at the age of 87.{{cite web|url=http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2016/12/joyce-appleby-1929-2016.html|website=The Faculty Lounge|title=Joyce Appleby (1929–2016)|access-date=18 December 2017}}
- {{cite web|url=https://earlyamericanists.com/2016/12/30/in-memoriam-joyce-appleby-1929-2016/|website=Early Americanists|title=In Memoriam: Joyce Appleby (1929–2016) « The Junto|access-date=December 18, 2017|date=December 30, 2016}}

Career

Appleby taught at San Diego State University from 1967 to 1981, then became a professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993,{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=19 April 2011}} and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1994.{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Joyce+Appleby&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2022-01-26|website=search.amphilsoc.org}} In 1990–1991, she was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

As the president of the Organization of American Historians, Appleby secured congressional support for an endowment to send American studies libraries to 60 universities around the world. A selection of 1,000 books was made by a group of scholars on American history, literature, political science, sociology and philosophy.{{cite web|title=JOYCE O APPLEBY|url=http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/emeriti-ae-1/emeriti?lid=441|website=UCLA Department of History|access-date=August 9, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811205712/http://www.history.ucla.edu/people/emeriti-ae-1/emeriti?lid=441|archive-date=August 11, 2014}}

Appleby was a specialist in historiography and the political thought of the early American Republic, with special interests in Republicanism, liberalism and the history of ideas about capitalism. She served on the editorial boards of numerous scholarly journals and editorial projects, and received prominent national fellowships.

Works

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{{external media| float = right| video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?157235-1/inheriting-revolution Booknotes interview with Appleby on Inheriting the Revolution, June 18, 2000], C-SPAN| video2 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?293185-1/qa-joyce-appleby Q&A interview with Appleby on The Relentless Revolution, May 16, 2010], C-SPAN| video3 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?319231-2/shores-knowledge Interview with Appleby on Shores of Knowledge, May 6, 2014], C-SPAN}}

  • Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978) {{ISBN|978-0-691-05265-6}}
  • Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (New York: New York University Press, 1984) {{ISBN|978-0-8147-0581-0}}
  • Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992) {{ISBN|978-0-674-53012-6}}
  • (co-author) Telling the Truth About History (New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994) {{ISBN|978-0-393-31286-7}}
  • (ed.) Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective (New York: Routledge, 1996) {{ISBN|978-0-415-91382-9}}
  • (ed.) Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997) {{ISBN|978-1-55553-301-4}}
  • Inheriting the Revolution : The First Generation of Americans (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 2000) {{ISBN|978-0-674-00236-4}}
  • (ed.) Thomas Paine, Common Sense and Other Writings (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005) {{ISBN|978-1-59308-209-3}}
  • The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010) {{ISBN|978-0-393-06894-8}}
  • Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013) {{ISBN|978-0-393-23951-5}}

See also

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