John A. Garraty

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name = John Arthur Garraty
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birth_date = July 4, 1920
birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, United States
death_date = December 19, 2007
death_place = Sag Harbor, New York, United States
residence = United States
citizenship = United States
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field = Historian
work_institutions = Columbia University
alma_mater = Brooklyn College, Columbia University
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known_for = Biographical History
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John Arthur Garraty (July 4 1920 – December 19 2007) was an American historian and biographer.

Garraty was educated at Brooklyn College and Columbia University. He taught at Michigan State University before joining the Columbia University History Department in 1959. He served as the president of the Society of American Historians . He retired from teaching at Columbia in 1990.

An author of many textbooks, Garraty's works include the high school history textbook "The American Nation", which was co-written by Mark C. Carnes, the school book "American History" and the American National Biography.

External links

* [http://www.anb.org/main-editors.html Editors of the "American National Biography"]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/nyregion/26garraty.html John A. Garraty, Historian and Trailblazing Biographer, Dies at 87]