David W. Noble

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David W. Noble is a professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a historian of American intellectual trends and thought, and an historiographer.

Professor Noble was raised on a farm in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his doctorate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. His publications include “The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden” and more recently “The Death of a Nation." The University of Minnesota began annually presenting the David Noble Lecture Series at the History Museum in Saint Paul in his honor shortly after his retirement (although the octogenarian professor has since come out of retirement and is still teaching). He has mentioned to his students that his claim to fame is that he “delivered milk to Einstein’s house when he was a boy.”