David S. Brown
Encyclopedia
Career
In 2006 he published Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography which was the University of Chicago Press's nominee for the Pulitzer PrizePulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
in History. The book explores the life and times of the noted Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
historian, Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University...
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His most recent work, published in 2009, is a study of Midwestern historians and their influence on the American historical profession entitled Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing.
Degrees
- 1995 Ph.D., University of ToledoUniversity of ToledoThe University of Toledo is a public university in Toledo, Ohio, United States. The Carnegie Foundation classified the university as "Doctoral/Research Extensive."-National recognition:...
- 1992 M.A., University of AkronUniversity of AkronThe University of Akron is a coeducational public research university located in Akron, Ohio, United States. The university is part of the University System of Ohio. It was founded in 1870 as a small college affiliated with the Universalist Church. In 1913 ownership was transferred to the City of...
- 1990 B.A., Wright State UniversityWright State UniversityWright State University is a comprehensive public university with strong doctoral, research, and undergraduate programs, rated among the 260 Best National Universities listed in the annual "America's Best Colleges" rankings by U.S. News and World Report. Wright State is located in Fairborn, Ohio,...
Selected works
- Thomas Jefferson: A Biographical Companion, ABC-Clio Inc. 1998 ISBN 0874369495
- Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, University of Chicago Press 2006 ISBN 0226076407
- Beyond the Frontier: The Midwestern Voice in American Historical Writing, University of Chicago Press 2009 ISBN 0226076512