Adrienne Koch

Adrienne Koch (September 10, 1912 – August 21, 1971) was an American historian. Her specialty was American history of the eighteenth century. After her bachelor's degree from New York University, Koch took her master's degree and a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Koch taught at Tulane University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Michigan, before being appointed professor of history at the University of Maryland. She still held this post when she died in New York on August 21, 1971, at the age of fifty-eight. Major publications include: *The Selected Writings of John and John Quincy Adams* (ed.) (1946), *The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions* (1948), *Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration* (1950), *Hamilton, Adams, and the Pursuit of Power* (1954), *Philosophy for a Time of Crisis* (1959), *Power, Morals, and the Founding Fathers* (1961), *Adams and Jefferson: Posterity Must Judge* (1964), *The American Enlightenment* (1965), and *Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson* (1943).