James Axtell

James L. Axtell (born December 20 1941) is a noted professor of history at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Axtell, whose interests lie in American Indian history and the history of higher education, is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as a Fellow in 2004. [ [http://www.wm.edu/news/?id=4132 William & Mary - News & Events ] ] Axtell retired at the end of the spring 2008 semester. [ [http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=9047 William & Mary - News & Events ] ]

At William & Mary, Axtell taught classes on the history of higher education, in which he has occasion to speak of his time as a student at Yale and Cambridge universities, where he held the university longjump records. At the end of his first semester at Yale, he had a horrible GPA. Axtell earned a reputation for making his students rewrite their papers.

Books

*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Educational Writings of John Locke: A Critical Edition | publisher= Cambridge University Press | month=January | year=1968 | id=ISBN 0-521-04073-6
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The School upon a Hill: Education and Society in Colonial New England | publisher= Yale University Press | month=January | year=1976 | id=ISBN 0-300-01723-5
*cite book | author=James Axtell and James P. Ronda | title= Indian Missions: A Critical Bibliography | publisher= Indiana University Press-The Newberry Library | month=January | year=1978 | id=ISBN 0-253-32978-7
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Indian Peoples of Eastern America: A Documentary History of the Sexes | publisher= Oxford University Press | month=February | year=1981 | id=ISBN 0-19-502741-8
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The European and the Indian: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America | publisher= Oxford University Press | month=January | year=1982 | id=ISBN 0-19-502904-6
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America | publisher= Oxford University Press | month=January | year=1986 | id=ISBN 0-19-504154-2: History Book Club; Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies, 1985; Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize, American Society for Ethnohistory, 1986; Albert B. Corey Prize, American Historical Association-Canadian Historical Association, 1986
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America | publisher= Oxford University Press | year=1988 | id=ISBN 0-19-505376-1
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= Beyond 1492: Encounters in Colonial North America | publisher= Oxford University Press | month=January | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-19-506838-6
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Indians’ New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast | publisher= Louisiana State University Press | month=July | year=1997 | id=ISBN 0-8071-2172-X
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Pleasures of Academe: A Celebration & Defense of Higher Education | publisher= University of Nebraska Press | month=September | year=1998 | id=ISBN 0-8032-1049-3
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North America | publisher= Oxford University Press | month=August | year=2000 | id=ISBN 0-19-513771-X
*cite book | author=James Axtell | title= The Making of Princeton University: Woodrow Wilson to the Present | publisher= Princeton University Press | month=April | year=2006 | id=ISBN 0-691-12686-0

References and footnotes

External links

* [http://jlaxte.people.wm.edu/ Professor Axtell's personal homepage and curriculum vitae]