Michael Burns, Ph.D.

Michael Burns, Ph.D. (1947- ) was born December 30, 1947 in Mineola, Long Island, New York. He began his dramatic career as a juvenile actor in television in 1957/1958 as the character Barnaby West on Wagon Train. He appeared as a guest star in over 35 television series in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly Westerns. He appeared in several films, most notably in "That Cold Day in the Park" (1969). In 1973 he decided to devote himself to obtaining a college education. He graduated summa cum laude from UCLA with a B.A. in 1976 and earned his M.A. in European History at the same institution. He entered Yale University in 1977 where he earned his Ph.D. in Modern European History. He was a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College in Massachussets from 1980-2002 and is married to its sixteenth president Elizabeth Topham Kennan. He is the author of Rural Society and French Politics: Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair, France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History, and This Side of Paradise: A Global History of 1900?1950. He presently resides in Kentucky where he and his wife have restored a thoroughbread horse farm on the National Register of Historic Places.

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1947 - December 30 - Long Island - New York - 1957 - 1958 - Wagon Train - 1960s - 1970s - Westerns - 1969 - 1973 - Summa cum laude - UCLA - B.A. - 1976 - M.A. - Yale University - 1977 - Ph.D. - Mount Holyoke College - Massachussets - 1980 - 2002 - National Register of Historic Places

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