Jon Meacham: Difference between revisions

 

Meacham attended [[The McCallie School]],<ref name="sewaneepurplejonmeacham" />{{efn|He read [[Robert V. Remini]]'s three-volume biography of Jackson while in high school. Remini read Meacham's biography of Jackson in manuscript.<ref name="Times">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/arts/robert-v-remini-andrew-jackson-biographer-dies-at-91.html |title=Robert Remini, Exhaustive Andrew Jackson Biographer, Dies at 91 |last=Yardley |first=William |date=April 5, 2013 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=May 12, 2019}}</ref>|name=Remini}} where he developed an interest in the [[civil rights movement]].<ref name="Sewanee p. 2" /> He then went on to attend [[Sewanee: The University of the South]] where he graduated salutatorian and ''[[Latin honors#North America|summa cum laude]]'' in 1991 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in [[English literature]] and was elected to [[Phi Beta Kappa]].<ref name="sewaneepurplejonmeacham">{{cite news |title=Jon Meacham (C'91) returns to Sewanee as a history professor |url=https://thesewaneepurple.org/2014/02/15/jon-meacham-c91-returns-to-sewanee-as-a-history-professor/ |access-date=June 9, 2018 |work=The Sewanee Purple |date=February 15, 2014}}</ref><ref name="Univ of the South 150 years">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46939570/university-of-the-south-marks-150-years/ |title=University of the South marks 150 years |date=October 11, 2007 |work=The Tennessean |access-date=March 18, 2020 |pages=B2}}</ref>

 

==Career==