Harvard Sitkoff
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Harvard Sitkoff (January 4, 1940 – January 9, 2025[1]) was an American historian.
He lived in Durham, New Hampshire.[2]
Career
He was a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire.[2][3] He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammad Ali,[4] and also wrote on the politics of Martin Luther King Jr.[5] Describing that period, Sitkoff called the summer of 1967 the "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed".[6]
