Peter Kolchin

Born in New York, Peter Kolchin attended local schools. He graduated from Columbia University with an A.B. in 1964,^[2] and conducted graduate work at Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1970. His doctoral thesis was entitled First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction.^[1]

He is a professor at the University of Delaware.^[3]

• 1988 Bancroft Prize in American History
• 1988 Avery O. Craven Award from the Organization of American Historians
• Charles Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association

• First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction. University of Alabama Press. 1972. (Revised Ed. 2008, ISBN 978-0-8173-5535-7)
• Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom. Harvard University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-674-92098-9. Peter Kolchin.
• Frank McGlynn; Seymour Drescher, eds. (1992). "The Tragic Era? Interpreting Southern Reconstruction in Comparative Perspective". The Meaning of freedom: economics, politics, and culture after slavery. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-5479-8.
• American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993, revised ed. 2003) ISBN 978-0-14-024150-1
• Helen Saltz Jacobson, ed. (2002). "Foreword". Up from Serfdom: My Childhood and Youth in Russia, 1804-1824. Translator Helen Saltz Jacobson. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09716-0.
• A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective. LSU Press. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8071-2866-4.