Melvin Patrick Ely

Melvin Patrick Ely (born Richmond) is an American historian.

Life

He grew up in Richmond. He graduated from Princeton University, and from the University of Texas with a master's degree in linguistics, and from Princeton University with a master’s degree in history in 1982 and with a doctoral degree in 1985.^[1] He taught at Yale University, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary.^[2]

Awards

• 2005 Bancroft Prize
• 1998-1999 Fulbright Professor of American Studies

Works

• Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. Random House, Inc.. 2005. ISBN 9780679768722. http://books.google.com/books?id=xTxd5ZSyZNwC&dq=Melvin+Patrick+Ely&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=7lZ-ti1cqE&sig=J4LnIDptT6bSQQYLzhYm2SO029o&hl=en&ei=sDg1S6byBovClAeW9syfBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. Free Press. 1992. ISBN 9780029095034. 
• Amotz Zahavi, Avishag Zahavi, Melvin Patrick Ely (1999). The Handicap Principle: a missing piece of Darwin's puzzle. Illustrator Amir Balaban. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195129144. http://books.google.com/books?id=ImjqhNqjiqsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Melvin+Patrick+Ely&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Amos 'n' Andy: lineage, life, and legacy, Princeton University, 1985

References

1. ^ http://web.wm.edu/news/archive/index.php?id=4371
2. ^ http://mpelyx.people.wm.edu/

External links

• "Interview with Bancroft Winner Melvin Patrick Ely", History News Network, 5-23-05
• "Melvin Patrick Ely, 'Israel on the Appomattox'", Tavis Smiley Show, November 24, 2004

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