Donald A. Ritchie is the Historian of the United States Senate

Historian of the United States Senate

The Historian of the United States Senate heads the United States Senate Historical Office, which was created in 1975 to record and preserve historical information about the United States Senate. The current Historian of the Senate is Donald A...

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He graduated from the City College of New York

City College of New York

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 (1967) and received a Master's Degree (1969) and Ph.D. (1975) from the University of Maryland, College Park. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1969–1971.

He was responsible for editing the closed hearing transcripts of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's

Joseph McCarthy

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 investigations, and has authored a number of books including Electing FDR. His book, Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents won him the Organization of American Historians

Organization of American Historians

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 Richard W. Leopold Prize

Richard W. Leopold Prize

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. He has served as president of the Oral History Association

Oral History Association

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 and on the councils of the American Historical Association

American Historical Association

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, the International Oral History Association

International Oral History Association

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, and the Society for History in the Federal Government

Society for History in the Federal Government

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Scholarship

• The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932 (University Press of Kansas, 2007) ISBN 9780700616879
• Our Constitution Oxford, 2006, ISBN 9780195223859
• Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents Harvard University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780674703759
• James M. Landis
  James M. Landis
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  : Dean of the Regulators (Harvard 1980)

Textbooks

• The American Vision, The American Republic, and The American Journey, with Joyce Appleby, Alan Brinkley, Albert Broussard, and James McPherson (Glenooe/McGraw-Hill)

Editing

• The Oxford Handbook of Oral History (Oxford University Press, 2010)
• Congress and Harry S. Truman: A Conflicted Legacy (Truman State University Press, 2011)

External links

• Booknotes Interview transcript
• Releasing Joe McCarthy
• "Donald Ritchie on Deep Throat.", National Review, Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez, June 01, 2005
• "Interview with Donald A. Ritchie, Oral Historian at the USA senate", veruscacalabria, August 9, 2010
• Fast Forward: Oral History in the 21st Century by Donald Ritchie
• The Election of 1932: Photographshttp://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/25170
• The Election of 1932: Cartoonshttp://teachinghistory.org/best-practices/examples-of-historical-thinking/25169