Morton Keller

Morton Keller (1 March 1929 – 2018) was an American historian, academic and author. He specialized in the history of American legal and political institutions.^[1]

Keller was born on March 1, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York.^[2] He was the son of Jacob Keller and Anita Keller.^[2] Keller got married to Phyllis Daytz on September 7, 1951.^[2] He died in the year 2018.^[2]

Keller completed his BA degree at the University of Rochester in 1950.^[3] He completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1952 and 1956 respectively.^[3]

Keller served in the US Navy and then took up an academic career as a historian.^[4] He served as the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University.^[5] Keller served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 1980.^[6] He had previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford Universities respectively.^[5]

Keller received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959-1960.^[5] He received the Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Legal History in 1995.^[5]

Keller is the author of a number of notable books:^[5][7]

• Making Harvard modern : the rise of America's university
• Obama's time : a history
• Affairs of State : public life in late nineteenth century America
• America's three regimes : a new political history

• List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959
• Strauss–Howe generational theory
• Oxford History of the United States
• Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum
• List of Jewish historians
• Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History
• Joseph Cari Jr.
• Oscar Handlin

• In Memoriam: Morton "Mickey" Keller, 1929-2018
• Morton Keller | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Keller, Morton 1929- | Encyclopedia.com
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• MORTON KELLER Obituary (1929 - 2018) - Cambridge, MA - Boston Globe