Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe (born January 10, 1937 in Ogden, Utah) is a historian of the early national period of American history and specializes in the intellectual and religious history of the United States. He is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received the Pulitzer Prize for History for What Hath God Wrought, his most famous book. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Howe graduated from East High School (Denver, Colorado), and received his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University, magna cum laude in American History and Literature in 1959, and his Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley in 1966. Currently he resides in Sherman Oaks, California and is married with three grown children.

Howe's connection with Oxford University began when he matriculated at Magdalen College to read Modern History in 1960; he took his M.A. in 1965. In 1989–1990, he was Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford and a Fellow of Queen's College. In 1992, he became a permanent member of the Oxford History Faculty and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford until his retirement in 2002. Brasenose College elected him an Honorary Member of their Senior Common Room.

Bibliography

• The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805 - 1861 (Harvard University Press, 1970),
• Victorian America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976)
• Political Culture of the American Whigs (University of Chicago Press, 1979),
• Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Harvard University Press, 1997). I
• What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848 (Oxford University Press, 2007) which is part of the Oxford History of the United States.

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