Ahlstrom, Sydney E.

• 1919 Dec 16: Sydney Eckman Ahlstrom born in Cokato, Minnesota, son of Joseph T. and Selma Eckman Ahlstrom
• 1941: B.A. Gustavus Adolphus College
• 1942 - 1946 : U.S. Army, Captain
• 1946: M.A. University of Minnesota Instructor in history, Gustavus Adolphus
• 1948 - 1952 : Teaching fellow and history tutor, Harvard University
• 1951 - 1952 : Fulbright fellow, University of Strasbourg, France
• 1952: Ph.D. Harvard, Instructor in history Faculty member, Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Austria
• 1953 Aug 8: Married Nancy Ethel Alexander (Children: J. Alexander, b. 1954; Promise, b. 1955; Constance, b. 1957; Sydney, b. 1960)
• 1954: Assistant Professor of Modern Church History and American History, Yale University Fellow, Branford College, Yale The Harvard Divinity School published (co-author)
• 1957: Lutheran World Federation lecturer in various countries of Europe
• 1960: Associate Professor, Yale
• 1961: The Shaping of American Religion published (co-author)
• 1962 Spring: Visiting Professor, Princeton University The American Protestant Encounter with World Religions (Brewer Lectures, Beloit College) published
• 1964: Full Professor, Yale
• 1964 - 1965 : Research in Paris, France
• 1965: Calvinism and the Political Order published (co-author)
• 1967 - 1971 : Chair, American Studies Program, Yale
• 1967: Rauschenbusch Lecturer, Colgate Rochester Divinity School
• 1967: Theology in America published
• 1970 - 1971 : Research in Munich, Germany
• 1972 Summer: Visiting Professor, Kyoto Summer Seminar in American Studies, Japan
• 1972: A Religious History of the American People published
• 1972 - 1973 : Director of Graduate Studies, Religious Studies Department, Yale
• 1973: National Book Award Recipient
• 1973 Summer: Scholar-in-Resident, Aspen Institute of Humanistic Studies, Colorado Chair, Consulting Committee on the National Bicentenary of the Lutheran Church in America
• 1973 - 1974 : Chair, American Studies Program, Yale
• 1974: Brotherhood Award of the National Council of Christians and Jews
• 1975: Visiting Lecturer at universities and professional conferences in Australia and New Zealand
• 1975: Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Upsala College, New Jersey
• 1975: President, American Society of Church History
• 1976: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Susquehanna University
• 1976: Religious Dilemmas of Nationhood published (editor)
• 1978: Rockefeller Fellowship for research on Romanticism
• 1979: Samuel Knight Professor of American History and Modern Religious History, Yale
• 1979: The Christian Century Award for the Decade's Most Outstanding Book on Religion
• 1984: Died in New Haven, Connecticut

From the guide to the Sydney Ahlstrom Papers, 1931-1988, (Yale University Divinity School Library)