Daniel Walker Howe

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Daniel Walker Howe (born January 10, 1937) is a historian of the early national period of American history and specializes in the intellectual and religious history of the United States. He is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University (England) and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles. He received the Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought, his most famous book. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Born in Ogden, Utah, he graduated from East High School in Denver, Co, and received his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College, magna cum laude in American History and Literature in 1959, and his Ph.D. at University of California at Berkley in 1966. Currently he resides in Sherman Oaks, CA and is married with three grown children.

Howe's works include: The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805 - 1861 (Harvard University Press, 1970), Victorian America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976) Political Culture of the American Whigs (University of Chicago Press, 1979), Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Harvard University Press, 1997). In 2007, he published his Pulitzer-winning book, What Hath God Wrought; The Transformation of America 1815- 1848 (Oxford University Press) which is part of the Oxford History of the United States.

In 1989 - 1990, he was Harmsworth visiting Professor of American History at Oxford University. In 1992, he became a permanent member of the Oxford History Faculty and a Fellow of Saint Catherine's College until his retirement in 2002.