Morton Keller

Morton Keller (1 March 1929 – 2018) was an American historian, academic and author. He specialized in the history of American legal and political institutions.

Biography Keller was born on March 1, 1929, in Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Jacob Keller and Anita Keller. He completed his MA and PhD at Harvard University in 1952 and 1956 respectively. He served as the Spector Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Keller served as the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford in 1980. He had previously taught at the University of North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania and was a visiting professor at Harvard, Sussex, and Oxford Universities respectively.

Affairs of State : public life in late nineteenth century America (Harvard University Press, 1977) Making Harvard modern : the rise of America's university (Oxford University Press, 2007) America's three regimes : a new political history (Oxford University Press, 2007) Obama's time : a history (Oxford University Press, 2015)