Jeremy D. Popkin

Jeremy David Popkin (born 1948) is an American historian who specializes in French modern history and the history of the press in France.

Biography

Jeremy D. Popkin was born in Iowa City, Iowa, the son of Richard Popkin, scholar of modern philosophy, and his wife Juliet (née Greenstone). He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and an A.M. degree from Harvard University. Since 1978, Popkin teaches at the University of Kentucky, where he holds the William T. Bryan chair of history.

Major publications

The Right-Wing Press in France, 1792-1800 (1980)
News and Politics in the Age of Revolution: Jean Luzac's 'Gazette de Leyde' (1989)
Revolutionary News: The Press in France, 1789-1799 (1990)
A History of Modern France (1994)
A Short History of the French Revolution (1995)
Press, Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 (2002)
History, Historians and Autobiography (2005)
Facing Racial Revolution: Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Revolution (2007)
You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery (2010)
La Presse de la Revolution (2011)
Concise History of the Haitian Revolution (2012)
From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography (2015; 2020)
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (2019)

Editor

Press and Politics in Pre-Revolutionary France (1987; with Jack Censer)
Media and Revolution (1995)
The Mémoires secrets and the Culture of Publicity in Eighteenth-Century France (1998; with Bernadette Fort)
Panorama of Paris: L.-S. Mercier’s Tableau de Paris (1999)
The Abbé Grégoire and His World (2000; with Richard H. Popkin).
Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Periodical Press (2004; with H.-J. Luesebrink)
The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin (2008)
On Diary (2009; with Philippe Lejeune and Julie Rak)

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