Gabriel Kolko
| Gabriel Kolko | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 17, 1932 Paterson, New Jersey, USA |
| Died | May 19, 2014 (aged 81) Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Occupation | Historian, writer, educator |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | USA |
| Education | PhD, Harvard University (1962) |
| Period | 1955–2014 (writer) |
| Genre | History |
| Subject | Progressive Era, Vietnam War, Corporate liberalism |
| Literary movement | Historical revisionism |
| Notable works | The Triumph of Conservatism, The Limits of Power (co-author w/ Joyce Kolko) |
| Notable awards | Transportation History Prize from Organization of American Historians, 1963; Social Sciences Research Council fellow, 1963–64; Guggenheim fellow, 1966–67; American Council of Learned Societies fellow, 1971–72; Killam fellow, 1974–75, 1982–84; Royal Society of Canada fellow. |
| Spouse | Joyce Manning (m. 1955) |
Gabriel Morris Kolko (August 17, 1932 – May 19, 2014) was an American-born Canadian historian and author. His research interests included American capitalism and political history, the Progressive Era, and US foreign policy in the 20th century. One of the best-known revisionist historians to write about the Cold War, he had also been credited as "an incisive critic of the Progressive Era and its relationship to the American empire." U.S. historian Paul Buhle summarized Kolko's career when he described him as "a major theorist of what came to be called Corporate Liberalism … [and] a very major historian of the Vietnam War and its assorted war crimes."
Kolko was of Jewish heritage, and was born in Paterson, New Jersey, son of Philip (a teacher) and Lillian (a teacher; maiden name, Zadikow) Kolko. He married Joyce Manning (a writer) on June 11, 1955. Kolko attended Kent State University where he studied American economic history (BA 1954). Next he attended the University of Wisconsin where he studied American social history (MS 1955). He would receive his PhD from Harvard University in 1962.
During these years, Kolko found himself active in the Student League for Industrial Democracy (SLID). By the time his first pamphlet, Distribution of Income in the United States, was published by SLID in 1955, Kolko had already completed a stint serving as the league's national vice chairman. Following his graduation from Harvard, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania and at SUNY-Buffalo. In 1970, he joined the history department of York University in Toronto, remaining an emeritus professor of history there until his death in 2014.
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