Robert V. Remini

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Robert Vincent Remini (born July 17, 1921) is a historian and a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of numerous works about President Andrew Jackson and the Jacksonian Era.

He received his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from Fordham University and Columbia universities. He is professor of history emeritus and research professor of humanities emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He won the National Book Award for the third volume of his study of Andrew Jackson, and he has also written biographies of Henry Clay, John Quincy Adams, Martin van Buren and Daniel Webster.

On April 28, 2005, Remini was appointed the Historian of the United States House of Representatives.

[edit] Selected works

• Andrew Jackson and the Bank War (1967)
• Andrew Jackson (1969)
• The Life of Andrew Jackson (1988)
  • Vol. 1 The Course of American Empire (1767-1821) (1977)
  • Vol. 2 The Course of American Freedom (1822-1832) (1981)
  • Vol. 3 The Course of American Democracy (1833-1845) (1984)
• The Revolutionary Age of Andrew Jackson (1985)
• The Jacksonian Era (1989)
• Henry Clay: Statesman of the Union (1993)
• Daniel Webster: The Man and His Time (1997)

• The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory (1999)
• Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars (2001)
• John Quincy Adams (2002)
• The House: The History of the House of Representatives (2006)
• Martin Van Buren and the Making of the Democratic Party