
Alan Charles Kors
Alan Charles Kors is an American historian who is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college teaching.
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- Born in
- Jersey City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityPrinceton University
- Awards
- 🏆 National Humanities Medal
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1943
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