Kenneth A. Lockridge, 1940–2024: Remembered

A major scholar of New England history, Kenneth A. Lockridge, has died. You may be of a generation that does not know Lockridge's work, but for my generation (Ph.D. 1966) and two succeeding academic generations, Lockridge's scholarship was profoundly influential. A 1962 Yale graduate, as a doctoral student (Ph.D. 1965) he worked under the supervision of Princeton Professors Wesley Frank Craven, an early Americanist, and Lawrence Stone, a leading scholar of 17^th-century England who was a key innovator in family and demographic studies. Lockridge's thinking was also influenced by Pierre Goubert, whose Beauvais et les beauvaisis de 1630 à 1730 (1960), was a work shaped by the Annales school that promoted the concept of histoire totale. Like Stone and Goubert, Lockridge imagined new paths. His creativity was also inspired by Professor Peter Laslett, whose Cambridge (U.K.) Group for the History of Population and Social Structure shaped scholarship...