About the OI
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
- Introduction
- Gary B. Nash, University of California, Los Angeles
- J. L. Bell, Independent Scholar
- Wayne Bodle, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
- Joshua Brown, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Benjamin L. Carp, Tufts University
- Edward Countryman, Southern Methodist University
- Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
- Kevin Q. Doyle, Brandeis University
- Terry J. Fife, History Works, Inc.
- Mary Furner, University of California, Santa Barbara
- James Grossman, American Historical Association
- Ron Hoffman, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Frederick E. Hoxie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Mark H. Jones, Connecticut State Library
- Gary J. Kornblith, Oberlin College
- Allan Kulikoff, University of Georgia
- Patrick M. Leehey, Paul Revere House
- Ann M. Little, Colorado State University
- Ken Lockridge, University of Montana
- Staughton Lynd, Independent Scholar
- Michael A. McDonnell, University of Sydney, Australia
- Gregory Nobles, Georgia Tech
- Elaine Weber Pascu, Princeton University
- Sarah Pearsall, University of Cambridge
- William Pretzer, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution
- Mary Janzen Quinn
- Ray Raphael, Independent Scholar
- Andrew M. Schocket, Bowling Green State University
- David Waldstreicher, Temple University
- Tribute posted by Beacon Press
It has been deeply moving to read the tributes about Al Young from so many historians and comrades—especially from the many younger scholars for whom he was an inspiration and to whom he gave encouragement and support. He and I were roughly of the same generation—he was a few years older than I—and our work on popular and artisanal resistance movements and their connection with festivity took place at the same time: his in revolutionary America, mine in early modern France. We didn’t know each other then, but I recognized him as a co-conspirator, and I’m sure he felt the same about me. It was thrilling to meet him in later years. And also so get to know his daughter Liz Young, who has carried on his tradition in another field. His legacy is a rich one.
Natalie Zemon Davis, University of Toronto
Source: personal correspondence. Published with permission.