Bancroft Prize
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Peter Silver
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Peter Silver
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Richmond, Indiana → New Haven, Connecticut → Rutgers University (resident/affiliate) → Southwest Harbor, Maine (spends holidays)
Career
- Occupations
- Historian, Academic
- Active Years
- 1998-
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship), Rutgers University (faculty)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard College | — | Department of History | BA | — | United States |
| Yale University | — | Department of History | MA, PhD | — | United States |
Harvard College
Department of History
Degree:
BA
Country:
United States
magna cum laude
Yale University
Department of History
Degree:
MA, PhD
Year of Graduation:
2001
Country:
United States
MA and Ph.D. (awarded 2001)
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Whiting Fellowship | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2001 | John Addison Porter Prize | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Bancroft Prize | Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America | — | Columbia University (Bancroft Prize) | 受賞 |
| 2008 | Mark Lynton History Prize | Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America | — | Nieman Foundation / Mark Lynton Prize | 受賞 |
Whiting Fellowship
1999
Result:
受賞
John Addison Porter Prize
2001
Result:
受賞
Bancroft Prize
2008
Work:
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Organization:
Columbia University (Bancroft Prize)
Result:
受賞
Mark Lynton History Prize
2008
Work:
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
Organization:
Nieman Foundation / Mark Lynton Prize
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
2007 HistoryExamines how Indian wars in 18th-century North America transformed colonial society and relations between settlers and indigenous peoples, showing how conflict shaped political and social change.
colonial warfareindigenous-settler relationsviolence and social change
A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear
HistoryA study of 18th-century warfare and political impacts in Spanish and British America during the War of Jenkins's Ear (detailed publication data not specified).
inter-imperial conflictcolonial policy
Bibliography
- Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America
- A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- scholarly narrative historyanalysis grounded in primary sources
- Recurring Motifs
- colonial violencefrontier and conflictindigenous-settler relations
Legacy
Peter Silver is recognized for his work on early American warfare and indigenous-settler relations, winning major history prizes such as the Bancroft Prize. He is noted for scholarly narrative and analysis based on primary sources.
Trivia
- Raised in Richmond, Indiana.
- Graduated from Harvard College; earned MA and Ph.D. from Yale University (2001).
- Lives with his wife and daughter and spends holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.
- Won the Bancroft Prize and the Mark Lynton History Prize in 2008 for Our Savage Neighbors.