John Richard Alden

Alden graduated from the University of Michigan with A.B. in 1929), M.A. in 1930, and Ph.D. in 1939. After teaching at Michigan State Normal College (now called Eastern Michigan University), and subsequently at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, In 1934, Alden married Pearl B. Wells (1906–1979). In 1980 he married Kathleen C. Smith, who died in 1990. Upon his death in 1991 he was survived by a daughter from his first marriage and by a granddaughter. ==Awards and honors==

• 1945 — Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association • 1955 — Guggenheim Fellowship for the academic year 1955–1956 • 1960 — Commonwealth Fund Lecturer at University College, London • 1979 — festschrift published as The Revolutionary War in the South—Power, Conflict, and Leadership: Essays in Honor of John Richard Alden ==Selected publications==

• • • • • • • • • {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gV0xAAAAQBAJ|title = A History of the American Revolution|isbn = 9780307831385 • • • • ==References==