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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
Kenneth M. Stampp

Kenneth Milton Stampp, Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley (1946–1983), was a celebrated historian of slavery, the American Civil War, and Reconstruction. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University and Colgate University, Commonwealth Lecturer at the University of London, Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Munich, and has held the Harmsworth Chair at Oxford University. In 1989, he received the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. In 1993, he won the prestigious Lincoln Prize for lifetime achievement by the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College.

Professor | July 12, 1912 - July 10, 2009
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. — © Kenneth M. Stampp
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.
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