Pulitzer Prize for History
1 appearances
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Edition 90 (2008) Winner
Daniel Walker Howe
だにえる・うぉーかー・はう
Danieru Wōkā Hō
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1937-01-10 （Ogden, Utah）
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Ogden, Utah → Denver, Colorado → Cambridge, Massachusetts → Berkeley, California → Oxford, England → New Haven, Connecticut → Los Angeles, California → Sherman Oaks, California
Career
- Occupations
- historian
- Active Years
- 1966-2002
- Affiliations
- Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Oxford University, Wofford College
- Memberships
- President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2001), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard University | — | American history and literature | Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude) | — | United States |
| University of California, Berkeley | — | History | Ph.D. | — | United States |
| Magdalen College, Oxford | — | modern history | M.A. | 1960-1965 | United Kingdom |
Harvard University
American history and literature
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts (magna cum laude)
Year of Graduation:
1959
Country:
United States
magna cum laude in American history and literature
University of California, Berkeley
History
Degree:
Ph.D.
Year of Graduation:
1966
Country:
United States
Magdalen College, Oxford
modern history
Degree:
M.A.
Period:
1960-1965
Year of Graduation:
1965
Country:
United Kingdom
matriculated in 1960
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Pulitzer Prize for History | What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 | — | Columbia University | winner |
| 2014 | Doctor of Humanities (honorary) | — | — | Weber State University | received |
Pulitzer Prize for History
2008
Work:
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Organization:
Columbia University
Result:
winner
Doctor of Humanities (honorary)
2014
Organization:
Weber State University
Result:
received
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
2007 U.S. History 904 pagesComprehensive account of the transformation of America from 1815 to 1848, part of the Oxford History of the United States series, emphasizing intellectual and religious dimensions.
intellectual historyreligioncommunications revolutionmarket revolutionWhig Party
Bibliography
- The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861
- Victorian America
- The Political Culture of the American Whigs
- Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- detailed archival analysisintellectual and religious insightsnarrative synthesis
- Recurring Motifs
- religious dimensionsWhig political culturemaking of the American selftransformations via market and communications
Legacy
Leading historian of early national U.S. history, focusing on intellectual and religious aspects. Pulitzer Prize winner, Rhodes Professor Emeritus of American History at Oxford, and Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA.
Trivia
- Born in Ogden, Utah.
- Graduated from East High School in Denver.
- Served as Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford in 1989–1990.