William Baskerville Hamilton (March 7, 1908 – July 17, 1972) was a historian at Duke University who focused on the history of the American South and of Great Britain.
His scholarly work led him to many international trips to England and its colonies and dependencies (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ghana, and Nigeria).
[2] In 1952, Hamilton edited, and wrote the introduction for, a volume on the history of the little magazine South Atlantic Quarterly ; in 1956 he became managing editor for that journal.
The book contains transcriptions of Rodney's notebooks from 1804 to 1809, which took Hamilton a decade to produce, based on documents held by the Library of Congress and other collections.
[2] His long standing interest in constitutional and legal history led him to work on the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold fund.