Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished

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. He is the co-author of the

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-winning '' Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'' (1998), and author of ''Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War,'' (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award. Burrows received his BA from the

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in 1964, and his PhD from

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in 1973, where he studied under

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. The same year, he began teaching at

, where his course on the

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was one of the college's most popular offerings. He resided in

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. Burrows died at the age of 74 in May 2018.Edwin G. Burrows, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, dies at 74
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Interview
with Burrows on "New Books in History"
C-SPAN's BookTV
Burrows talks about "Forgotten Patriots" at the National Archives, November 19, 2008. 1943 births 2018 deaths Columbia University alumni University of Michigan alumni Pulitzer Prize for History winners Historians of New York City Brooklyn College faculty 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers People from Northport, New York Writers from Detroit Historians from New York (state) American male non-fiction writers Historians from Michigan {{US-historian-stub