Daniel T. Rodgers 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 race; as well as the st ...

. He is an emeritus professor at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the n ...

, and the author of several books.

Early life

Rodgers was born in 1942 in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...

. He graduated from Brown University in Engineering, and from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

with a Ph.D.

Career

Rodgers was

Henry Charles Lea Henry Charles Lea (September 19, 1825 – October 24, 1909) was an American publisher, civic activist, philanthropist and historian from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He took over the family publishing business from his father, Isaac Lea, and imp ...

Professor at

until 2012. He was a

Guggenheim Fellow Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2007. His work appeared in ''Harper's''. He has written a history of social ideas across the last three decades of the twentieth century in the United States.

Awards

* 1978

Frederick Jackson Turner Award The Frederick Jackson Turner Award, is given each year by the Organization of American Historians for an author's first book on American history. It was started in 1959, by Mississippi Valley Historical Association, as the Prize Studies Award. ...

, ''The Work Ethic in Industrial America'' * 1999 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, ''Atlantic Crossings'' * 1999

George Louis Beer Prize The George Louis Beer Prize is an award given by the American Historical Association for the best book in European international history from 1895 to the present written by a United States citizen or permanent resident. The prize was created in 1923 ...

, ''Atlantic Crossings'' * 2011

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

, ''

Age of Fracture ''Age of Fracture'' is a 2011 history book about the disintegration of shared values in American social debate around the 1980s. It was written by Daniel T. Rodgers and published by Belknap Press. It won the 2012 Bancroft Prize The Bancroft ...

Works

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References

External links

* 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Brown University alumni Yale University alumni Princeton University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub