JOHN B. HALSTED ’48

JOHN B. HALSTED, 88, the Winkley Professor of History, Emeritus, at Amherst College, died Feb. 25, 2015. A member of Psi Upsilon, he received his degree with high honors and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a master’s degree from Wesleyan and a PhD from Columbia University. He also received an honorary master’s degree from Amherst College, where he taught European history in a career that spanned 45 years. His publications included Romanticism: Problems in Definition, Explanation, and Evaluation; Contemporary Writing on the Coup d’État of Louis Napoleon; and Romanticism. After he retired he volunteered in his community. Among those who survive are his wife, Betty Nilsen Halsted, three children, five grandchildren, and two brothers.