Bruce Kuklick

Bruce Kuklick is Professor of History. His historical interests are broadly in the political, diplomatic, and intellectual history of the United States; and in the philosophy of history. He has won all the major teaching prizes given by the University, including the Senior Class Award. In 2004 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

He has written a dozen books among them one on baseball, To Every Thing A Season. His most recent books are Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger published by Princeton University Press in 2006; a biography of African American philosopher William Fontaine, Black Philosopher; White Academy, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008; and a political history of America,One Nation Under God, published by Palgrave-MacMillan in 2009. He is working on  a monograph, Historical Knowledge, and with Emmanuel Gerard an examination of the politics of the Belgium Congo in 1960: Death in the Congo: Killing Patrice Lumumba.