Roy Franklin Nichols

Roy Franklin Nichols (March 3, 1896 – January 12, 1973) was an American historian who won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Disruption of American Democracy.

Biography

Nichols was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Franklin Coriell and Annie Cairns Nichols. His wife was the historian Jeannette Paddock Nichols (1890–1982). He graduated from Rutgers University in 1918. He completed a Master of Arts degree from Rutgers in 1919. He was a fellow at Columbia University from 1920 to 1921,Fischer & Fischer (2002), p. 177 and an instructor in history at Columbia from 1921 to 1925.Brennan & Clarage (1999), p. 295 He completed a PhD degree from Columbia in 1923. In 1925 he was appointed assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1930 to 1966, he was professor of history at Pennsylvania. He also was Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (1952–66), and Vice Provost at Pennsylvania (1953–66). He was a visiting professor at Columbia (1944–45), Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University (1948–49), and Stanford University (1952). In 1962 he was Fulbright lecturer in India and Japan.

He was president of Middle States Association of History Teachers (1932–33); President of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (1936–1939); President of Pennsylvania Federation of Historical Societies (1940–42); Member of Pennsylvania Historical Commission (1940–43); Member of Council, American Historical Association (1943–47); Chairman of Social Science Research Council (1949–53); President of Association of Graduate Schools of the American Association of Universities (1963–64); Vice President of American Historical Association (1964–65); President of American Historical Association (1965–66); and, Chairman of Council of Graduate Schools in the United States.

He was a Baptist.

Awards and Honorary Degrees

Nichols was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1945.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Roy+F.+Nichols&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-03-31 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}} He received Haney Medal for Literary Excellence in 1961, and Athenaeum Literary Award in 1961.[http://www.philaathenaeum.org/literary.html Athenaeum Literary Award], official website. He has also received a number of honorary degrees from universities such as Rutgers University and Cambridge University.

Publications

The Democratic Machine, 1850–1854 (1923)See [https://archive.org/details/democraticmachin0000nich online]
Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills (1931; 2nd ed. 1958){{Cite journal|last = Hamilton|first = Holman|date = 1959-03-01|title = Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills by Roy Franklin Nichols|url = https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/7788|journal = Indiana Magazine of History|issn = 1942-9711}}{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lSeTAAAAIAAJ|title = Franklin Pierce, Young Hickory of the Granite Hills|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1958-01-01|publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn = 9780812270440|language = en}}
The Disruption of American Democracy (1948).{{Cite book|url = https://archive.org/details/TheDisruptionOfAmericanDemocracy|title = The Disruption Of American Democracy|last = Roy Franklin Nichols|date = 1948-01-01|language = ENGLISH}}{{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=W6SHAAAAMAAJ|title = The disruption of American democracy|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1948-01-01|publisher = Macmillan Co.|isbn = 9780608039565|language = en}} (1949 Pulitzer Prize for History)
Advance Agents of American Destiny (1956){{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X5NKAAAAMAAJ|title = Advance agents of American destiny|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1956-01-01|publisher = University of Pennsylvania Press|language = en}}
Religion and American Democracy (1959){{Cite book|url = https://archive.org/details/religionamerican00nich|title = Religion and American democracy|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1959-01-01|publisher = Baton Rouge,: Louisiana State University Press}}
Blueprints for Leviathan: American Style (1963){{Cite book|url = https://archive.org/details/blueprintsforlev00nich|title = Blueprints for Leviathan: American style|last = Nichols|first = Roy F. (Roy Franklin)|date = 1963-01-01|publisher = New York, Atheneum}}
History in a Self-Governing Culture (1966){{Cite web|url = http://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/roy-f-nichols|title = Roy F. Nichols|website = www.historians.org|access-date = 2016-03-25}}
The Invention of the American Political Parties (1967){{Cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=34g0AAAAIAAJ|title = The invention of the American political parties|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1967-01-01|publisher = Macmillan|isbn = 9780029229200|language = en}}
The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission: A History (1967){{Cite book|url = https://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniahist00nich/pennsylvaniahist00nich_djvu.txt|title = The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission A History|last = Nichols|first = Roy Franklin|date = 1967-01-01|publisher = PHMC|language = en}}

Notes

References

{{cite book |title=Complete biographical encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize winners, 1917–2000 |last=Fischer |first=Heinz-Dietrich |author2=Erika J. Fischer |year=2002 |publisher=K. G. Saur |location=Munich, Germany |isbn=978-3-598-30186-5}}
{{cite book |title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |last=Brennan |first=Elizabeth A. |author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage |year=1999 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-57356-111-2 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofpulitze00bren }}

External links

[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/roy-franklin-nichols-dlb/ Roy Franklin Nichols biography]
[http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/ead/upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl1016 Papers of Roy Nichols at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries]

Category:1896 births

Category:1973 deaths

Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge

Category:20th-century American historians

Category:Columbia University fellows

Category:Columbia University alumni

Category:Columbia University faculty

Category:Historians of the United States

Category:Presidents of the American Historical Association

Category:Pulitzer Prize for History winners

Category:Rutgers University alumni

Category:University of Pennsylvania faculty