Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,[3] and a leading scholar of the life and career of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
[6] He received his BA degree in 1943 from Cornell University, where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
[8] He served as a program consultant for Ken Burns' documentary series Prohibition, which premiered on PBS in October 2011.
[4] Leuchtenburg turned 100 on September 28, 2022,[11] and died at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on January 28, 2025, at the age of 102.
[4] Leuchtenburg was the author of more than a dozen books on 20th-century history,[12] including the Bancroft Prize–winning Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963), a volume in the New American Nation series co-edited by his mentor Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris.