Charles Grier Sellers

Charles Grier Sellers (born September 9, 1923 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an American historian.

Born in North Carolina, Sellers earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1945 (graduation delayed by military service until 1947), and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1950.

In 1950-1951 Sellers was an assistant professor in the history department of the University of Maryland, followed in 1951-1958 by Princeton University. In 1958 he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, getting promoted to full professor. In 1960-1961 he was honored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 1963 he won a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1964 he was a visiting professor at El Colegio de Mexico. In 1970-1971 he was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.

Sellers was a member of the Southern Historical Association.

Sellers was arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi airport on 21 July 1961, as a part of the Freedom Rides (profiled in Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders).

• 1963 Guggenheim Fellowship

• "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-03. Retrieved 2010-01-15. 

• James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843. Princeton University Press. 1957. 
• Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1960). "The Travail of Slavery". The Southerner as American. E. P. Dutton. 
• Charles Grier Sellers, ed. (1961). Andrew Jackson, Nullification and the State-Rights Tradition. Chicago: Rand McNally. 
• The Market versus the Agrarian Republic in "A Synopsis of American History", 1st ed. Chicago: Rand McNally. 1963. 
• James K. Polk: Continentalist, 1843-1846. Princeton University Press. 1966.  (Bancroft Prize)
• Andrew Jackson: A Profile. Hill and Wang. 1971. ISBN 978-0-8090-6051-1. 
• Charles Grier Sellers; Henry Farnham May; Neil R. McMillen (1974). A Synopsis of American History. Chicago: I.R. Dee. Rand McNally. ISBN 978-0-929587-74-5.  (7th Edition 1992)
• As It Happened: A History of the United States. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1975. ISBN 978-0-07-056179-3. 
• The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846. Oxford University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-19-503889-7.