Alexander Clarence Flick

Alexander Clarence Flick (1869–1942) was an American historian. Born in Ohio and educated at Syracuse and Columbia, he taught European history at Syracuse University for more than twenty-five years and in 1923 became State Historian of New York, where he directed the ten-volume History of the State of New York and supervised the state's historical records and markers. His books include The Rise of the Mediaeval Church, a textbook history of the church from the apostles to the thirteenth century, The Decline of the Medieval Church, Loyalism in New York during the American Revolution and a biography of Samuel J. Tilden.