Ellis was suspended without pay in 2001 after falsely telling his students that he had fought in the Vietnam War he was reappointed to the chair four years later, in 2005. For part of 1984, he also served as the college's acting president while president Elizabeth Topham Kennan was on leave. His scholarly work has concentrated on the Founding Fathers of the United States, including biographies of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, the American Revolution, and the history of the Federalist Era, which lasted from 1788 to 1800.Įllis served as dean of faculty at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts (1980–1990) following that, he was named by the trustees to the endowed Ford Foundation Chair in history. He has also taught at Williams College and in the Commonwealth Honors College at the University of Massachusetts. In 1979, he was made full professor and later became the Ford Foundation Professor of History. Ellis later joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College.
At William and Mary, Ellis was in ROTC.Įllis entered the United States Army in August 1969 and spent three years teaching history at the United States Military Academy at West Point before being discharged a captain in 1972. Morgan directed his dissertation on the English writer Samuel Johnson. from Yale University in 1969, where Edmund S.
from the College of William and Mary, where he was initiated into Theta Delta Chi. His book American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson won a National Book Award in 1997 and Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for History. Joseph John-Michael Ellis III (born July 18, 1943) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian whose work focuses on the lives and times of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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