Donald B. Cole born 31 March 1922 in Lawrence, MA is professor emeritus at Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

, New Hampshire

New Hampshire

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, and the author of a number of books on early American history, including Martin Van Buren and the American Political System as well as The Presidency of Andrew Jackson.

Cole is married to Susan Wilson, with whom he has four children, Douglas, Robert, Daniel and Susan.

He graduated from Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy

Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...

, Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and served in the Navy

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 during World War II

World War II

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Published works

• Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 by Donald B. Cole Chapel Hill, NC :UNC Press, 1963 / 2002. ISBN 0807854085

• The presidency of Andrew Jackson by Donald B Cole Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1993. ISBN 0700606009

• Witness to the young republic : a yankee's journal, 1828-1870 (with Benjamin B French;& John J McDonough. Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 1989. ISBN 0874514673

• Jacksonian democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851 Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970 ISBN 0674469909

• Martin Van Buren and the American political system Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1984. ISBN 0691047154

• A Jackson man : Amos Kendall and the rise of American democracy Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004 ISBN 0807129305