Robert Roswell Palmer
Robert Roswell Palmer | |
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R. R. Palmer, circa 1953 | |
| Dean of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis | |
| In office 1963–1966 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Spouse | Esther Howard |
| Children | 3, including Stanley Palmer |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Cornell University |
| Awards | Bancroft Prize |
Robert Roswell Palmer (January 11, 1909 – June 11, 2002) was an American historian. Specializing in eighteenth-century France, he is best known for The Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800 (1959 and 1964), which examined the Atlantic Revolutions, an age of democratic revolution that swept Europe and the Americas between 1760 and 1800. He was awarded the Bancroft Prize in History for the first volume. Palmer also achieved distinction as a history text writer.