Arthur Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States.[1] He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998.
The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson,[2] Roger Ekirch is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles"[3] and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.[4][5][6][7]
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^"Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. (1915-2000) | Perspectives on History | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
^""Sleep We Have Lost" Commentary". History.vt.edu. Department of History, Virginia Tech. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^Gideon Lewis-Kraus (July 24, 2005). "'At Day's Close': The Dark Ages". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^"Review: At Day's Close by A Roger Ekirch | Books". The Guardian. July 30, 2005. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
^Gorvett, Zaria (January 10, 2022). "The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'". BBC Future. Archived from the original on January 10, 2022.
^Hegarty, Stephanie (February 22, 2012). "The myth of the eight-hour sleep". BBC News. Archived from the original on March 15, 2014.
Arthur RogerEkirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim...
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sleep much later, although this is not always the case. Historian A. RogerEkirch thinks that the traditional pattern of "segmented sleep," as it is called...
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the eighteenth century, as it had during the seventeenth. Historian A. RogerEkirch estimates that as many as one-quarter of all British emigrants to colonial...
Psychophysiology for Social and Personality Psychology. ISBN 978-0-85702-405-3. Ekirch, A. Roger (2006). At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. W. W. Norton & Company...
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Colony" is a chronicle of delusion". economist.com. The Economist. Ekirch, A. Roger. "'The Secret Token' Review: America's First Unsolved Mystery". wsj...
christened on 15 May 1712. The second was an unnamed girl. [citation needed] Ekirch, Roger (1987). Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to...
Historical Review. 81 (4): 986–987. doi:10.2307/1865061. JSTOR 1865061. Ekirch, Arthur (November 1976). "Steel Titan: The Life of Charles M. Schwab". Reason...
slowly undermining democratic procedure and values." The historian Arthur Ekirch believes that Americans were historically skeptical of an aggressive foreign...
The Entrepreneur of Fritz Redlich". 22nd Annual ESHET Conference. Ekirch, A. Roger (October 1994). "Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft:...
Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Hook: Waterside Press, 2009. p.157 Ekirch, Roger (1987). Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to...
Adjustment Act, the National Labor Relations Act, and the Social Security Act. Ekirch Jr., Arthur A. Ideologies and Utopias: The Impact of the New Deal on American...
to the Land. The Way We Lived in North Carolina, 1820–1870. 1983. Ekirch, A. Roger "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776...
Dimensions". Proceedings of the British Academy. 151: 139 and 157–158. Ekirch, A. Roger (October 1994). "Sometimes an Art, Never a Science, Always a Craft:...
Burials". AETN UK (History channel). Retrieved 12 September 2013. Ekirch, A. Roger (1987). Bound for America. The transportation of British convicts to...
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