Richard D. Brown

Richard D. Brown is a prolific author and historian of Early America. His latest book, “Self-Evident Truths,” traces the legal and cultural history of civil rights in the United States from their conception in the Declaration of Independence through the Civil War. He is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, at the University of Connecticut, where he taught for almost 40 years. After earning his Ph. D. from Harvard, he taught as a Fulbright lecturer in France and at Oberlin College before arriving at UConn in 1971. A past president of the Society of Historians of the Early American Republic and the New England Historical Association, Brown has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. He currently serves as president of the New England Quarterly.