Harrington held administrative posts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as assistant to the president (1957), vice president of academic affairs (1958) and vice president of the university (1962). From 1962 until 1970, he was president.[3] He was a Ford Foundation advisor in India from 1971 to 1977, and then returned to the university to continue teaching. Harrington retired in 1982 and died of a stroke in Madison in 1995.[4]
In 2015, an endowed professorship was named after Harrington called the Fred Harvey Harrington Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Alfred W. McCoy was given this chair.
The award for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's best undergraduatethesis in history is known as the Fred Harvey Harrington Prize.[5]
Books
The Anti-Imperialist Movement in the United States, 1898-1900, 1935, OCLC4623042
Nathaniel Prentiss Banks; A Study in Anti-slavery Politics, 1936, OCLC7318205
God, Mammon and the Japanese : Dr. Horace N. Allen and Korean-American relations, 1884-1905, 1944, OCLC6970878