Donald B. Cole

Donald B. Cole born 31 March 1922 in Lawrence, MA is professor emeritus at Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, 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, Harvard University and served in the Navy during World War II.

Published works

• Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 by Donald B. Cole Chapel Hill, NC :UNC Press, 1963 / 2002. ISBN 0-8078-5408-5

• The presidency of Andrew Jackson by Donald B Cole Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1993. ISBN 0-7006-0600-9

• 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 0-87451-467-3

• Jacksonian democracy in New Hampshire, 1800-1851 Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1970 ISBN 0-674-46990-9

• Martin Van Buren and the American political system Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-691-04715-4

• A Jackson man : Amos Kendall and the rise of American democracy Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-8071-2930-5