Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an Americanhistorian, best known forThe Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993) withStanley Elkins, which won theBancroft Prize in 1994.^[1]

McKitrick was born inBattle Creek, Michigan. He graduated fromColumbia University with a B.A. in 1949, an M.A. in 1951, and a Ph.D. in 1959. He taught at theUniversity of Chicago and atRutgers University's Douglass College in the 1950s, andColumbia University from 1960 to 1989 before retiring as an emeritus professor of history.^[2] In 1973–74 he was thePitt Professor of American History and Institutions atCambridge University and in 1979–80 theHarold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History atOxford University.

McKitrick reviewed forThe New York Review of Books.^[3]

He died inNew York City, aged 82.

• 1960Dunning Prize
• 1970Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1994Bancroft Prize

• Eric L. McKitrick (1960).Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-505707-2.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) (reprinted 1988)
• Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1963).Slavery Defended: The Views of the Old South. Prentice-Hall.ISBN 0-13-812800-6.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Eric L. McKitrick, ed. (1969).Andrew Johnson; A Profile. Hill and Wang.ISBN 978-0-8090-6160-0.
• Stanley M. Elkins & Eric L. McKitrick (1993).The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800. Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-509381-0.