George Athan Billias

George Billias died on August 16, 2018. Billias was professor emeritus of American history at Clark University, where he taught for twenty-seven years. Among his notable writings was American Constitutionalism Heard Round the World, 1776–1989: A Global Perspective (2009). He also authored, edited, and coedited fourteen other volumes in biography, military and American constitutional history, and historiography. Upon Billias’s retirement from Clark in 1989, a symposium attended by more than one hundred scholars in early American history was held in his honor at AAS. Papers presented were published in The Republican Synthesis Revisited: Essays in Honor of George Athan Billias (1992). He was a member of the National Bicentennial Commission and the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture in Williamsburg, Virginia, and was elected to membership in the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Colonial Society of Massachusetts.