Amy S. Greenberg (born 1968) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsyl ...

Life

She graduated from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkele ...

and earned her PhD at

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

Awards

She was awarded a 2009

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

. She received the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2013 from the

Western History Association The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961 at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington, et al. Included in the field of study are the American West and western Canada. The Western History ...

for '' A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico''.

Works

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References

External links

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Greenberg discusses ''A Wicked War''
at the

Pritzker Military Museum & Library The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and research library for the study of military history located in a state-of-the art facility in Kenosha, WI. The institution was founded in 2003, ...

on December 7, 2012
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Amy S. Greenberg lecture at the National Archives on February 15, 2019 21st-century American historians University of California, Berkeley alumni Pennsylvania State University faculty American women historians Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni 21st-century American women writers 1968 births Living people {{US-historian-stub