Elkins, Stanley Maurice (1925– )

US historian. An academic, he was a leading authority on black American history. His many publications include Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959) and The Age of Federalism (1993).

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard and gained his PhD from Columbia. He was prominent among the students of Columbia's Richard Hofstadter. He taught at the University of Chicago and Smith College, where he became Syndenham Clark Parsons Professor of History Emeritus.