Adrienne Koch was an American historian, a specialist in American history of the eighteenth century.

Education

After her bachelor's degree from New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

, Koch took her master's degree and a doctorate in history from Columbia

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

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Teaching career

Koch taught at Tulane

Tulane University

Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...

, Berkeley, and the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

, before being appointed professor of history at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...

. She still held this post when she died in New York on August 21, 1971, at the age of fifty-eight.

Major publications

• The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams (ed.) (1946)
• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions: An episode in Jefferson's and Madison's defense of civil liberties (Bobbs-Merrill, 1948)
• Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration (Alfred A. Knopf, 1950)
• Hamilton, Adams, and the Pursuit of Power (University of Notre Dame Press, 1954)
• James Madison and the Workshop of Liberty (University of Notre Dame Press, 1954)
• Philosophy for a Time of Crisis: An Interpretation with Key Writings by Fifteen Great Modern Thinkers (Dutton, 1959)
• Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers: Essays in the Interpretation of the American Enlightenment (Cornell University, 1961, new edition 1970)
• Adams and Jefferson: Posterity Must Judge (Rand McNally & Co., 1964)
• The American Enlightenment, the Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society (George Braziller, 1965). Preface by Frank Freidel
  Frank Freidel
  Frank Freidel was the first major biographer of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and one of the first scholars to work in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers at Hyde Park, New York...
  
  . A 669-page anthology of the writings of Benjamin Franklin
  Benjamin Franklin
  Dr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
  
  , John Adams
  John Adams
  John Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...
  
  , Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
  
  , James Madison
  James Madison
  James Madison, Jr. was an American statesman and political theorist. He was the fourth President of the United States and is hailed as the “Father of the Constitution” for being the primary author of the United States Constitution and at first an opponent of, and then a key author of the United...
  
  , and Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton
  Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
  
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• Madison's Advise to My Country: The Whig-Clio bicentennial lectures (Princeton University Press, 1966)
• The American Enlightenment: The Shaping of the American Experiment and a Free Society, as Revealed in the Thoughts and Writings of Our Major Philosopher-Statesmen (George Braziller, 1966)
• Adrienne Koch (1912-1971) by Adrienne Koch (University of Maryland, 1972, 85pp)
• Jefferson (Great Lives Observed) (Prentice Hall, 1971) ISBN 978-0-13-509802-8
• Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (Columbia University Press, 1943) ISBN 978-0-8129-6011-2
• The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (ed. Adrienne Koch and William Peden) (Random House, new edition 1998, limited edition from Franklin Library
  Franklin Library
  The Franklin Library, the distributing arm of the publishing division The Franklin Press , was the United States' largest distributor of great 'classic title' books produced in fine bindings for collectors—similar to the mantle carried now by Easton Press—until the company permanently closed,...
  
  , 1982) ISBN 978-0-375-75218-6
• Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison (ed. Adrienne Koch)