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Joel Henry Silbey (August 16, 1933 – August 7, 2018) was an American historian who spent his career at Cornell University and was the President White Professor of History Emeritus there. Silbey was known for his studies of the history of the United States in the 19th century and especially the Jacksonian era, the creation and evolution of U.S. political parties, the sectional crises of the 1840s and 1850s, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. He used the techniques of quantitative history and became known as one of "New Political Historians".