Stanley Elkins
Stanley M. Elkins was a historian specializing in late 18th-century and antebellum America.
He studied at Harvard University and earned his doctorate from Columbia University in 1958.
Elkins served as an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago from 1955-1960 before joining Smith College in 1960, where he remained until his death as the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emeritus of History.
Along with co-author Eric McKitrick, he produced The Age of Federalism, which won the prestigious Bancroft Prize for American history in 1994 after a thirty-year collaboration.
