Clarence Crane Brinton (Winsted, Connecticut, 1898 – Cambridge, Massachusetts, September 7, 1968) was an American historian of France, as well as an historian of ideas. His most famous work, The Anatomy of Revolution (1938) likened the dynamics of revolutionary movements to the progress of fever. For many years he taught a popular course at Harvard known informally to his students as "Brunch with Brinton." In 1963 Brinton was elected president of the American Historical Association. He was also president of the Society for French Historical Studies.