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The Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions was established at the University of Cambridge on 5 February 1944 from a sum of £44,000 received from the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press in 1943 and augmented by a further £5,000 in 1946. The title of the chair was changed to the Pitt Professorship of American History and Institutions in 1951.[1]

The professorship is unusual in that tenure is for a period of one year only.[1]

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to 1979 Thernstrom was Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several prize-winning books...

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of Cambridge as the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions. During that year Cox and his wife were able to travel throughout Britain and...

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University Pitt Club

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United States. For most of its history, Pitt was a private institution until it became part of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education in 1966....

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