Timothy Tackett (born 1945) is an American historian specializing in the French Revolution and professor emeritus at the University of California, Irvine.^[1]

His 1996 book about the members of the National Constituent Assembly of 1789 won the Leo Gershoy Award of the American Historical Association in 2001; he has also written about the Flight to Varennes^[2] and the emergence of the Terror amid the turbulence of the Revolution.^[3]

Works

• Priest & Parish in Eighteenth-Century France: A Social and Political Study of the Cures in a Diocese of Dauphine, 1750-1791, Princeton University Press, 1977, 368 p.
• La Révolution, l'Église, la France, Cerf, 1986.
• Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791, Princeton University Press, 1986, 448 p.
• ' 'The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution, Journal of Modern History 54 (1982): 715-45
• Par la volonté du peuple, comment les députés sont devenus révolutionnaires, Albin Michel, 1997.
• Becoming a Revolutionary: The Deputies of the French National Assembly and the Emergence of a Revolutionary Culture (1789-1790), Princeton University Press, 1997, 355 p.
• When the King Took Flight, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
• Le Roi s'enfuit - Varennes et l'origine de la Terreur, Éditions La Découverte, 2004.
• Stewart J. Brown, Timothy Tackett (ed.), The Cambridge History of Christianity (vol 7): Enlightenment, Reawakening And Revolution 1660-1815, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 694 p.
• The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
• The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2021.