Awards and Service
- Member, Council of The Omohundro Institute of Early American
History and Culture, College of William and Mary, 2001-03
- The Society of American Historians, 2002
- Royal Historical Society, 1983-91
L.H.D. Honoris Causa Manhattan College, 1999
Bancroft Prize for A People in Revolution, 1982
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Teacher
- Yale University
- University of Canterbury (NZ)
- University of Warwick (UK)
- University of Cambridge (UK)
- Danforth Graduate Fellow 1966-71
- Woodrow Wilson Fellow 1966-67
Books and Essays
- The American Revolution, Hill & Wang, 1985; revised 2003
- Historians at Work, series editor and editor of two volumes, Bedford Books, 1999-2002
- The Empire State, co-author, Cornell University Press, 2001
- Shane, co-author with Evonne von Heussen-Countryman, British Film Institute Film Classics, 1999
- Americans: A Collision of Histories, Hill & Wang, 1996
- A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981; reprint W. W. Norton, 1989
Situations of Extreme Tension
Professor Edward Countryman explains the social consequences of cultural clashes in America.
His findings both complicate and clarify transformational American experiences, such as the
Revolution and the forging of a distinct American identity—one that ultimately relies upon the
common experiences of people who seem very different but actually share a great deal.
Countryman shows his subjects confronting the tensions in their own lives, struggling to resolve them, and transforming their worlds in:
- A People in Revolution—winner of the Bancroft Prize
- The American Revolution—used in college courses nationwide
- Americans: A Collision of Histories—
"What we long have needed:
a compact, illuminating overview of the
intricate strands of early American History." The New York Times Book Review
With Evonne von Heussen-Countryman, he extends the theme of
confronting and resolving extreme tension to the classic western Shane in the British Film Institute Film Classics series.
Their book demonstrates that the film is far more than just a cowboy picture. Shane presents intertwined stories about community, childhood, marriage, community, violence, and the course of American
history.
Countryman’s book-in-progress, The Empire State and the Standing Stone, recalls the relationship
between New York and the Oneida Indian Nation, from earliest European contact to the present.
The project has grown out of both his expertise on early New York and his extended involvement in contemporary litigation involving the Oneidas, the "People of the Standing Stone." It will explore
colonization and early contact, reconsider the American Revolution, and deal with matters of law, power, federalism, identity, survival, and resurgence across the history of the United States.
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