ILLICK, Joseph E. 1934-

PERSONAL: Born November 15, 1934, in Bethlehem, PA; son of Joseph E., Jr. (a building contractor) and Margaret (Flexer) Illick; married Shirley Anthony, June 4, 1956; children: three, including Joseph Edward, IV. Education: Princeton University, B.S.E., 1956; University of Pennsylvania, A.M., 1957, Ph.D., 1961. Politics: Liberal.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of History, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, CA 94132-1740. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, instructor, 1961-62; Lafayette College, Easton, PA, instructor, 1962-63; San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), San Francisco, CA, assistant professor, 1963-67, associate professor, 1967-71, professor of history, 1971—. San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, professor, 1974-75, 1978-79; visiting summer lecturer at Lehigh University, 1964, and New York University, 1965, 1966; University of California—Berkeley, visiting associate professor, 1968.

MEMBER: American Historical Association.

WRITINGS:

William Penn the Politician, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1965.

(Editor) America and England, 1558-1776, Appleton-Century-Crofts (New York, NY), 1970.

Colonial Pennsylvania: A History, Scribner (New York, NY), 1976.

At Liberty: The Story of a Community and a Generation; The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, High School Class of 1952, University of Tennessee Press (Knoxville, TN), 1989.

American Childhoods, University of Pennsylvania Press (Philadelphia, PA), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Anglo-American Political Relations, 1675-1775, edited by Alison Gilbert Olson and Richard Maxwell Brown, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1970; The Colonial Legacy, 1971; and History of Childhood, Harper (New York, NY), 1974. Contributor to San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner and to historical and popular periodicals, including Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

American Historical Review, April, 1977, review of Colonial Pennsylvania: A History, p. 430.

Best Sellers, September, 1976, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 203.

Choice, October, 1976, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 1044; February, 2003, E. W. Carp, review of American Childhoods, p. 1043.

Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 1990, Peter Monaghan, review of At Liberty: The Story of a Community and a Generation; The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, High School Class of 1952, p. A3.

Educational Studies, winter, 1980, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 418.

History: Reviews of New Books, September, 1976, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 219; winter, 1991, review of At Liberty, p. 59.

Journal of American History, June, 1977, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 119; March, 1991, Joseph M. Hawes, review of At Liberty, p. 142.

Library Journal, May 1, 1976, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 1118.

Pacific Historical Review, February, 1978, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 134.

Times Literary Supplement, November 8, 2002, Ashley Brown, review of American Childhoods, p. 35.

William and Mary Quarterly, April, 1977, review of Colonial Pennsylvania, p. 334.*