In Memoriam: Alfred F. Young
Introduction
Jesse Lemisch started a thread on H-OIEAHC when he shared a family statement announcing the death of Alfred F. Young on November 6. The post was soon followed by an outpouring, prompting the Institute to invite additional remembrances to be published in an online tribute to Al Young. Reproduced below are H-OIEAHC listserv posts, submissions sent directly to the Institute, excerpts from personal correspondence that came to the editors’ attention, and blog entries. Gary B. Nash composed the introductory essay.
Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
Alfred F. Young. Photo by Diana Rasche.
Courtesy, Emily Young.
Al, his wife Marilyn, and their three daughters
(left to right) Emily, Elizabeth,
and Sarah in April 2010.
Photo by Jacqueline Fritsch. Courtesy, Emily Young.
Al with a Kindle on his eighty-seventh birthday.
Courtesy, Emily Young.
- J. L. Bell, Independent Scholar
- Wayne Bodle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University
- Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
- Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
- Kevin Q. Doyle, Brandeis University
- Terry J. Fife, History Works, Inc.
- Mary Furner, University of California, Santa Barbara
- James Grossman, American Historical Association
- Ron Hoffman, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mark H. Jones, Connecticut State Library
- Linda K. Kerber, University of Iowa
- Gary J. Kornblith, Oberlin College
- Allan Kulikoff, University of Georgia
- Patrick M. Leehey, Paul Revere House
- Ann M. Little, Colorado State University
- Ken Lockridge, University of Montana
- Staughton Lynd, Independent Scholar
- Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney, Australia
- Gregory Nobles, Georgia Tech
- Elaine Weber Pascu, Princeton University
- Sarah Pearsall, University of Cambridge
- William Pretzer, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
- Mary Janzen Quinn
- Ray Raphael, Independent Scholar
- Andrew M. Schocket, Bowling Green State University
- David Waldstreicher, Temple University