Caroline Winterer is an American historian. She is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at

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. She is also Professor, by courtesy, of Classics. From 2013 to 2019, she was Director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She received her B.A. from

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and her Ph.D. from the

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. Her expertise is American history before 1900, especially the

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, and the

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.Caroline Winterer profile
at stanford.edu/people, accessed 9 February 2018

Books

*
How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America
'. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. *
What America's Founders Learned from Antiquity
'. The Great Courses, 2024. *

' .Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. edited with Karen Wigen. *
American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016, * "What Was the American Enlightenment?" in ''The Worlds of American Intellectual History'', eds. Joel Isaac, James Kloppenberg, and Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Oxford University Press, 2016 (ISBN forthcoming)
''The American Enlightenment: Treasures from the Stanford University Libraries''
(Stanford: Stanford University Libraries, 2011), *
The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750-1900
' (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007; pb 2009),
''The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780-1910''
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002; pb 2004),

Awards

* American Ingenuity Award, Smithsonian Institution, for mapping the social network of Benjamin Franklin (2013)

Notes

External links

* Featured in ''Smithsonian Magazine'': http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/dear-sir-ben-franklin-would-like-to-add-you-to-his-network-180947639/?no-ist * "'Enlightenment': America's Semantic Shield for the Cold War," ''The Takeaway'' (WNYC) (Oct. 26, 2016): http://www.wnyc.org/story/enlightenment-americas-semantic-shield-cold-war/ * "Stanford Historian Makes Case for American 'Enlightenments,'" ''Forum'' (KQED) (Nov. 30, 2016): https://ww2.kqed.org/forum/2016/11/29/stanford-historian-makes-case-for-american-enlightenments/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Winterer, Caroline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American historians Stanford University faculty University of Michigan alumni Pomona College alumni 21st-century American women writers American women historians Historians from California Stanford University Department of History faculty