David Mark Chalmers | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1927[1] |
| Died | October 25 2020[1] Gainesville (Florida)[1] |
| Citizenship | American |
| Known for | Hooded Americanism: A History of the Ku Klux Klan (1965) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Florida |
David Mark Chalmers (1927 - 25 October 2020) was an American historian.[1]
During the Second World War, Chalmers worked for the American army. After the war, he gained his Ph.D. in American history at the University of Rochester.[1] In 1955, he started working as an assistent professor at the University of Florida. During his long career at the university, he was the chair of the University President's Faculty Educational Policy Group.[1]
Chalmers was active in the civil rights movement.[2] He joined the St. Augustine movement in 1964 and was arrested for participating in the protests in St. Augustine, Florida. He was in jail for a week.[2] He was also active in demonstrations against the Vietnam War.[2]
In 1965, he published Hooded Americanism: A History of the Ku Klux Klan. It was reprinted several times and became his most popular work.
Chalmers was married to the Canadian Jean McCormick Chalmers.[1] They had two children.[1]
Publications
- The social and political ideas of the muckrakers (1964)[3]
- The history of the Standard Oil Company with Ida Minerva Tarbell (1966)
- The muckrake years (1974)
- Neither socialism nor monopoly: Theodore Roosevelt and the decision to regulate the railroads (1976)
- Hooded Americanism: the history of the Ku Klux Klan (1987)
- And the crooked places made straight: the struggle for social change in the 1960s (1991)
- Backfire: how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement (2003)
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "David M. Chalmers". Gainesville Sun. 2020-10-27. Archived from the original on 2022-01-31. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- 1 2 3 Aurora Martínez (2020-12-04). "Remembering UF Emeritus Professor David Chalmers". The Independent Florida Alligator. Archived from the original on 2023-06-01. Retrieved 2023-12-13.
- ↑ David Mark Chalmers (April 1, 1964). "End Papers; The Social And Political Ideas Of The Muckrakers. 127 pages. Citadel. $3.50". The New York Times.
In this era of instant information it is difficult to realize that at the turn of the century people eagerly sought monthly magazines for details about corruption in government, the venality of corporations and the corrosive influence of economic monopolies upon the body politic. That was the era of the Muckrakers, a term applied by Theodore Roosevelt and taken from Pilgrim's Progress.