Fred Anderson

Biographic Data

ID3744768
NAMEFred Anderson
GIVEN NAMESFred
FAMILY NAMEAnderson
SIGNATUREANDERSON F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Colorado System
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX3

  • The Pedagogy of Bafflement

    Fred AndersonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2022

    BERNARD Bailyn taught Harvard's introductory graduate research seminar in Early American History for the last time in the fall term of academic year 1992–1993, at the close of which he retired in compliance with Harvard's then-mandatory policy. The following September he returned to teach an expanded version of the course, reworked as a general introduction to historical methods, under a new rubric. He would offer that seminar every fall term fro…

  • Bernard Bailyn on the Craft and Art of Historical Writing

    Fred AndersonARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2022

    WHATEVER deficiencies Bernard Bailyn may have had, reticence about the practice of history, fortunately, was not one of them.1 During five decades as a teacher at Harvard, he devoted his research seminar in Early American history to introducing first-year graduate students to the discipline's essential skills and practices. Simultaneously he instructed scores of individual doctoral candidates in matters of research, argument, and writing whenever…

  • Homelands and Empires

    Fred AndersonARTICLEJournal of American History2018

    Jeffers Lennox begins his narrative of Anglo-French competition for the lands surrounding the Bay of Fundy with the salutary observation that the eighteenth-century French and British Empires “were geographic fictions and the[ir constituent] colonies ... were little more than a collection of pales” scattered across three great indigenous homelands (p. 3). For six decades before the Seven Years' War, European colonists were too few, and their fort…

  • Faculty Publications 2009

    Iain R Torrance, Robert Bohl et al.ARTICLEThe Princeton Seminary Bulletin2010References: 2

    t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…

  • Cultures in conflict

    Warren R Hofstra, Fred Anderson et al.BOOKCultures in conflict2007

    Preface Chapter 1: Introduction: Old Forts, New Perspectives-Thoughts on the Seven Years' War and Its Significance Chapter 2: British Culture and the Changing Character of the Mid-Eighteenth-Century British Empire Chapter 3: Great Power Confrontation or Clash of Cultures? France's War against Britain and Its Antecedents Chapter 4: War, Diplomacy, and Culture: The Iroquois Experience in the Seven Years' War Chapter 5: Declaring Independence: The O…

  • The Dominion of War

    Walter Russell Mead, Fred Anderson et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 4

  • Crucible of War

    Robert M S Mcdonald, Fred AndersonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2002

  • Crucible of War

    Harold E Selesky, Fred AndersonARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2001

  • The Oxford Companion to American Military History

    Brian Holden Reid, John Whiteclay Chambers et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Oxford Companion to American Military History. Ed. by John Whiteclay Chambers II, Fred Anderson, Lynn Eden, Joseph T. Glat-thaar, Ronald H. Spector, and G. Kurt Piehler. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xxxiv, 916 pp. $60.00, ISBN 0-19-507198-0.) Get access Brian Holden Reid Brian Holden Reid Kings College, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American His…

  • Crucible of War

    Richard Middleton, Fred AndersonARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Crucible of War: The Seven Years War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754–1766. By Fred Anderson. (New York: Knopf, 2000. lv, 862 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-37540642-5.) Get access Richard Middleton Richard Middleton Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1468–1469, https://doi…

  • An Unsettled Conquest

    Fred Anderson, Geoffrey PlankARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2001

  • The Great Frontier War

    Fred Anderson, William R NesterARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2000

  • Crucible of War

    Eliot A Cohen, Fred AndersonARTICLEForeign Affairs2000Cited by: 17

    In this account of the Seven Years' War, Fred Anderson demonstrates that the conflict was more than just a peripheral squabble that anticipated the American Revolution, changing the character of British Imperialism with the mother country trying to reshape terms of empire and the colonists' place

  • The Seven Years’ War

    Open AccessFred AndersonARTICLEJournal of History2000

  • Crucible of War

    Ian K Steele, Fred AndersonARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly2000

  • Angel in the Whirlwind

    Fred Anderson, Benson BobrickARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1999

  • The Problem of Fragmentation and the Prospects for Synthesis in Early American Social History

    Fred Anderson, Andrew Cayton et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1993

    A LTHOUGH anyone who has looked for an academic job in the last two decades might justifiably dispute the assertion, let us begin frankly: there has never been a better time than the present to be an early American historian. The last half of the twentieth century in general, the last quarter in particular, has been a time of demographic transformation and intellectual vitality unparalleled in the history of our field. No single development bears…

  • The Skulking Way of War

    Fred Anderson, Patrick M MaloneARTICLEJournal of American History1992Cited by: 4

    Journal Article The Skulking Way of War: Technology and Tactics among the New England Indians. By Patrick M. Malone. (Lanham: Madison, 1991. viii + 133 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8191-8067-X.) Get access Fred Anderson Fred Anderson University of Colorado Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 3, December 1992, Pages 1133–1134, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080823 Published…

  • Betrayals

    Fred Anderson, Ian K SteeleARTICLEJournal of American History1991

    Journal Article Betrayals: Fort William Henry and the “Massacre.” By Ian K. Steele. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. xii + 250 pp. $32.50.) Get access Fred Anderson Fred Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Pages 639–640, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079554 Published: 01 September 1991

  • The King's Ranger

    Fred Anderson, Edward J CashinARTICLEJournal of American History1990

    Journal Article The King's Ranger: Thomas Brown and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier. By Edward J. Cashin. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989. xiv + 360 pp. $35.00.) Get access Fred Anderson Fred Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Pages 998–999, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079025 Publi…

  • New England Outpost

    Fred Anderson, Richard I MelvoinARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield Get access New England Outpost: War and Society in Colonial Deerfield. By Melvoin Richard I.. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989. 368 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Fred Anderson Fred Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 2, May 1990, Pages …

  • Sixteen Minutes on Sunday

    Fred AndersonARTICLELiturgy1989

  • Bringing the War Home

    Fred Anderson, Elaine Forman Crane et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1987

  • Roots of Conflict

    Fred Anderson, Douglas Edward LeachARTICLEJournal of American History1987

    Journal Article Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677–1763. By Douglas Edward Leach. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xi + 232 pp. $22.50.) Get access Fred Anderson Fred Anderson University of Colorado, Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 73, Issue 4, March 1987, Pages 1019–1020, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904082 Pu…

  • Saints and Revolutionaries

    Fred AndersonARTICLEWinterthur Portfolio1986