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Forrest McDonald
Ph.D. University of Texas, 1955
Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus)
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Research Interests:
- U.S. Constitutional History
- U.S. Economic and Business History
- Southern History
Scholarly Books:
- Let There Be Light: The Electric Utility Industry in Wisconsin
(Madison: American History Research Center, 1957)
- We The People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958; new ed. New
Brunswick: Transaction, 1992)
- Insull (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1962)
- E Pluribus Unum: The Formation of the American Republic
(Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1965; new ed., Indianapolis:
Liberty Press, 1979)
- The Presidency of George Washington (Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 1974, paperback ed., 1985)
- The Phaeton Ride: The Crisis of American Success
(New York: Doubleday, 1974)
- The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson (Lawrence,
University Press of Kansas, 1976; paperback ed., 1987)
- Alexander Hamilton: A Biography (New York:
Norton, 1979; paperback ed., 1980)
- Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985; paperback ed., 1987)
- Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1988), with
Ellen Shapiro McDonald
- The American Presidency: An Intellectual History
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994; paperback ed.,
1995)
Children's Books:
- Enough Wise Men: The Story of Our Constitution
(New York: G.P. Putnam, 1970)
- The Boys Were Men: The American Navy in the Age of Fighting
Sail (New York:G.P. Putnam, 1971)
Textbooks:
- The Torch is Passed: The United States in the Twentieth
Century (Reading:Addison-Wesley, 1969)
- The Last Best Hope: A History of the United States
(Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1972), 3 vols. with Leslie
Decker and Thomas Govan
- A Constitutional History of the United States (New
York: Franklin Watts, 1982; new ed. Kneger, 1986)
Edited Volumes:
- Empire and Nation: John Dickinson and Richard Henry Lee
(Englewood Cliffs:Prentice-Hall, 1962; new ed. Indianapolis: Liberty
Press, 1999)
- Confederation and Constitution, 1781-1789 (New
York: Harper & Row, 1968), with Ellen Shapiro McDonald
Secondary Authorship:
- First Hand America, David Burner with Eugene Genovese,
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Forrest McDonald (St. James, NY:
Brandywine Press, 1990)
Honors and Fellowships:
- Social Science Research Council, Research Training Fellow, 1951-53
- Master of Arts, Honorary Degree, Brown University, 1962
- Guggenheim Fellow, 1962-63
- Volker Fund Fellowship, 1962-63
- Relm Foundation
Fellowship, 1965
- Earhart Fellowships, 1969, 1976, 1984
- American Council
of Learned Societies, Research Grant, 1975
- Distinguished Graduate
Faculty Award, Wayne State University, 1975
- George Washington Medal
(Freedom's Foundation), 1980
- Fraunces Tavern Book Award, for Alexander Hamilton,
1980
- Outstanding Scholar Award, University of Alabama,
1980
- First Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award, University of Alabama,
1980
- Mortar Board, Honorary Membership, 1982
- Board of Foreign Scholarships
(Presidential Appointment), 1985-87
- Finalist, Pulitzer Prize, for Novus Ordo Seclorum,
1986
- American Revolution Round Table Book
Award, 1986
- Benchmark Book Award, 1986
- National Endowment for the
Humanities, 16th Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities, 1987
- Doctor
of Humane Letters, Honorary Degree, SUNY-Geneseo, 1989
- Ingersoll Prize,
Richard M. Weaver Award for Scholarly Letters, 1990
- Heritage Foundation,
Salvatori Award for Academic Excellence, 1992
- Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Henry J. Salvatori Award for
The American Presidency, 1994
- Frederick Moody Blackmon--Sarah McCorkle Moody Outstanding Professor
Award, University of Alabama, 1995
- Alabama Library Association 1996
- Nonfiction Book Award The Templeton Honor Tolls for Education
in a Free Society, 1997-1998
- Vernon Society in conjunction with the Organization of American
Historians selected The Presidency of George Washington
one of the Ten Great Books on George Washington, 1998
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