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Biography of David M. Potter
Name: David M. Potter
Birth Date: 1910
Death Date: February 18, 1971
Place of Birth: N/A
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: historian
David M. Potter
The American historian David M. Potter (1910-1971) was trained as a Civil War historian, but earned his reputation for his book People of Plenty (1953), which was one of the significant texts of the era. He wrote extensively on the American society, the American character, and historiography.following year. It was seven years, however, before he received his Ph.D. from Yale. He began his graduate study under Ulrich B. Phillips, a historian of the South, but completed work under Ralph H. Gabriel, an American intellectual historian. These two scholars influenced his choice of subjects for the rest of his life.Potter began his teaching career as an instructor of history at the University of Mississippi in 1936. He taught there for two years before moving to Rice University. While in Texas he married his first wife, Ethelyn Henry, in 1939. He left Rice in 1942 to become master of Timothy Dwight College at Yale.…showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…either the Organization of American Historians or the American Historical Association. His colleagues at Stanford did complete other works. Carl Degler and Don E. Fehrenbacher edited his Fleming Lectures, which were published as The South and the Concurrent Majority in 1972. Fehrenbacher put a number of Potter's articles together into a book, History and American Society (1973). In 1976 Fehrenbacher completed The Impending Crisis 1848-1861 (a volume in the New American Nation Series), which won a Pulitzer Prize, as well as Freedom and Its Limitation in American Life, a collection of essays. Further Reading The best evaluation of Potter's writings is by Sir Denis Brogan in Marcus Cunliffe and Robin W. Winks, editors, Pastmasters: Some Essays on American Historians (1969). Potter's historical ideas can also be found in an interview contained in John A. Garraty, editor, Interpreting American History: Conversations with Historians (1973). His work is mentioned briefly in John Higham, History: Professional Scholarship in America (1965).
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