Susan Schulten is an American
historian
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, and professor at the
University of Denver
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.
She graduated from the
University of California, Berkeley
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, with a B.A., and from the
University of Pennsylvania
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, with a PhD.
Professor Schulten teaches courses on Lincoln, the Civil War and Reconstruction, the history of American ideas and culture, the Great Depression, the Cold War, the American west, war and the presidency, and the methods and philosophy of history.
She is a current member of the Colorado State Historian's Council.
Awards
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2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
''The geographical imagination in America, 1880-1950'' University of Chicago Press, 2001,
''Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America'' University of Chicago Press, 2012,
University of Chicago Press, 2012,
References
External links
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University of California, Berkeley alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
University of Denver faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American historians
American women historians
21st-century American women writers
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