- William G. McLoughlin
William Gerald McLoughlin (
June 11 1922 –December 28 1992 ) was anhistorian and prominent member of the history department atBrown University from 1954 to 1992. His subject areas were the history ofreligion in the United States ,revivalism , theCherokee ,missionaries to Native Americans,abolitionism , andRhode Island .Born in
Maplewood, New Jersey , McLoughlin earned his A.B. fromPrinceton University in 1947, graduatingPhi Beta Kappa after having taken a three-year hiatus from his studies to serve as afirst lieutenant in thefield artillery inWorld War II . [citation|url=http://webscript.princeton.edu/~paw/memorials/memdisplay.php?id=1196|journal=Princeton Alumni Weekly|title=Memorials > William Gerald Mcloughlin Jr. '44|date=December 8, 1993.] He received his A.M. fromHarvard in 1948 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1953.At Brown, he was promoted to a full
professor ship in 1963. In 1981, he was appointed the Annie McClelland and Willard Prescott Smith Professor of History and Religion. In 1992, McLoughlin was named the first Chancellor's Fellow at Brown, allowing him to continue teaching although he had earnedemeritus status.His many publications won him wide recognition, including the 1972 Frederic C. Melcher Prize for the best book on religion in America. McLoughlin was regarded as “one of the country’s most distinguished historians of American religion.” [citation|title=In Memoriam: William G. McLoughlin|first=John L.|last=Thomas|journal=American Quarterly|volume=45|issue=3|date=1993|pages=426.]
Despite military service in World War II, McLoughlin opposed American involvement in the
Vietnam War , and he was a former chair of the Rhode IslandAmerican Civil Liberties Union .citation|title=W. G. McLoughlin, Professor of History At Brown, Dies at 70|journal=New York Times |last=Daniels|first=Lee A.|date=January 6, 1993|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE4D8133CF935A35752C0A965958260. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/25/pageoneplus/corrections.html?pagewanted=print Correction] , July 25, 2005.]References
Books by William G. McLoughlin
(listed in chronological order)
*"
Billy Sunday Was His Real Name". (University of Chicago Press, 1955)
*"ModernRevivalism :Charles Grandison Finney toBilly Graham ". (Ronald Press, 1959)
*"Billy Graham , Revivalist in a Secular Age". (Ronald Press, 1960)
*"Isaac Backus and the American Pietistic Tradition". (Little, Brown, 1967)
*"Meaning ofHenry Ward Beecher : An Essay on the Shifting Values of Mid-Victorian America, 1840-1870". (Knopf, 1970)
*"New England Dissent, 1630-1833: TheBaptist s and the Separation of Church and State". (Harvard University Press, 1971)
*"Revivals, Awakenings, and Reform: An Essay on Religion and Social Change in America, 1607-1977". (University of Chicago Press, 1978)
*"Rhode Island : A Bicentennial History". (W.W. Norton, 1978)
*"Cherokee s and Missionaries, 1789-1839". (Yale University Press, 1984)
*"Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic". (Princeton University Press, 1986)
*"Rhode Island , a History". (W.W. Norton and the American Association for State and Local History, 1986)
*"Champions of theCherokee s: Evan and John B. Jones". (Princeton University Press, 1990)
*"Soul Liberty: The Baptists' Struggle inNew England , 1630-1833". (University Press of New England, 1991)
*"After theTrail of Tears : The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880". (University of North Carolina Press, 1993)
*"Cherokee s and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence". (University of Georgia Press, 1994)
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