David Hackett Fischer

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David Hackett Fischer
Born (1935-12-02) December 2, 1935 (age 88)
Baltimore, Maryland
OccupationProfessor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPrinceton University (A.B)
Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D)
GenreHistory
Notable works • Washington's Crossing
 • Paul Revere's Ride
 • Albion's Seed
 • Liberty and Freedom
 • The Great Wave

David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have covered topics ranging from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (Albion's Seed, The Great Wave) to narrative histories of significant events (Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term "historian's fallacy").

Education

Fischer grew up in

Baltimore, Maryland. He received an A.B. from Princeton University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1962.[1]

Career

Fischer has been on the faculty of Brandeis University for 50 years, where he is known for being interested in his students and history.[2]

He is best known for two major works:

folkways and regional cultures and that their interaction and conflict have been decisive factors in U.S. political and historical development. In Washington's Crossing, Fischer provides a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776–1777 during the American Revolutionary War
.

He was admitted as an honorary member of

The Society of the Cincinnati in 2006. He is a member of the board of College of the Atlantic
in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Awards

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History[3] and was a 2004 finalist for the National Book Award in the Nonfiction category.[4]

He received the 2006 Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute.[5]

In 2008, he published

Cundill Prize.[6]

In 2015, Fischer was named the recipient of the

In addition to these literary awards, he has been recognized for his commitment to teaching with the 1990 Carnegie Prize as Massachusetts Professor of the Year and the Louis Dembitz Brandeis Prize for Excellence in Teaching.[1]

Selected works

External videos
video icon Booknotes interview with Fischer on Paul Revere's Ride, July 17, 1994, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Fischer on Champlain's Dream at the New York Historical Society, October 23, 2008, C-SPAN
video icon Presentation by Fischer on Washington's Crossing, February 26, 2004, C-SPAN

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