birth_place major_works main_interests birth_date article_title name region
new york '' other books the war of the austrian succession '' and european history , baseball history 1938 reed browning
 reed browning united states
reed browning

reed browning is a retired professor of history who was born in 1938 in new york city .
browning gained his b.a. from dartmouth college , and his m.a. and ph.d. from yale university .
he also studied at the university of vienna .
he taught at amherst college from 1964 to 1967 and then spent forty years as an academic at kenyon college , from which he retired in 2007 .
whist at kenyon college he served as provost and briefly as acting president .
recognition of his teaching excellence include the senior trustee teaching excellence award -lrb- 2001 -rrb- and the senior cup -lrb- 1981 -rrb- .
he has written books on british and european history , including `` the duke of newcastle '' -lrb- 1975 -rrb- , `` political and constitutional ideas of the court whigs '' -lrb- 1982 -rrb- , and `` the war of the austrian succession '' -lrb- 1994 -rrb- .
a baseball fan , he has also penned two sports history books : `` cy young : a baseball life '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- and `` baseball 's greatest season : 1924 '' -lrb- 2003 -rrb- .
his peer-reviewed journal articles include : `` the duke of newcastle and the imperial election plan 1749-1754 '' , published in `` journal of british studies '' , volume 7 -lrb- 1967 -rrb- , pp. 28-47 ; and `` new views on the silesian wars '' , published in `` journal of military history '' , volume 69 , number 2 , april 2005 , pp. 521-534 .
