Paul Kopperman

British history, 1500-1800; British military, 1650-1800; Enlightenment medicine; Holocaust

Background

• Kopperman's research interests, reflected in the publications entry below, include: Tudor-Stuart history (mainly constitutional, social, colonial); Hanoverian Britain (mainly medical and military; military with focus on the British Army in North America, 1755-83); and the Holocaust within the context of the history of Anti-Semitism.
• Before entering the University of Illinois (Ph.D., 1972), Kopperman studied at Queens College, New York (B.A., 1966; M.A., 1969). A member of faculty at Oregon State since September 1978, he had previously taught at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) and at Illinois.

Select Publications

“Regimental Practice” by John Buchanan, M.D.: An Eighteenth-Century Medical Diary and Manual
(Ashgate, 2012).

Braddock at the Monongahela
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977; 3rd printing, 2004).
 

Sir Robert Heath, 1575-1649: Window on an Age

Woodbridge, Suffolk: Royal Historical Society, 1989).

• He has also published more than twenty articles, essays, and papers, most of them focused on some aspect of the 18th-century British Army or on medical history.
• Kopperman's booklets, Ashes and Smoke: The Holocaust in Its History and The Holocaust: What It Was - Why It Was - Why It Is Remembered, were published in 2003 by the Anti-Defamation League.
• Kopperman is currently working on a book on the medical history of the British Army in North America and the West Indies, 1755-83.