Joyce Oldham Appleby (April 9, 1929 – December 23, 2016) was an American historian.
[1] Her father was a businessman and she attended public schools in Omaha, Dallas, Kansas City, Evanston, Phoenix and Pasadena.
[4] In 1990–1991, she was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University.
A selection of 1,000 books was made by a group of scholars on American history, literature, political science, sociology and philosophy.
[5] Appleby was a specialist in historiography and the political thought of the early American Republic, with special interests in Republicanism, liberalism and the history of ideas about capitalism.