Marcus Falkner Cunliffe was a British scholar who specialized in cultural and military American Studies.
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10 Facts About Marcus Cunliffe
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Marcus Cunliffe was particularly interested in comparing how Europeans viewed Americans and how Americans viewed Europeans.
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Marcus Cunliffe read history at Oriel College, Oxford and Sandhurst, served in the British Army during World War II.
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From 1949 to 1964 Cunliffe taught American history at the University of Manchester.
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From 1965 to 1980, Marcus Cunliffe was Professor of American Studies at the University of Sussex, which established the Marcus Cunliffe Centre in 1991.
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From 1980 Marcus Cunliffe was University Professor at George Washington University.
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Marcus Cunliffe wrote or edited more than 15 books on history and literature.
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Marcus Cunliffe's best known early work was George Washington: Man and Monument, published in 1958.
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Marcus Cunliffe's papers are held at George Washington University's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.
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Marcus Cunliffe died of leukemia in Washington DC on September 2,1990.
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