Claude Halstead Van Tyne (October 16, 1869 – March 21, 1930) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903–1930, and wrote a number of books on the American Revolution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The War of Independence in 1930.
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Van Tyne was born in Tecumseh, Michigan, to Lawrence H. and Helena van Tyne.[1] He started his career in banking, and ascended to the cashier position. He left his banking career, and went to the University of Michigan to pursue his higher studies. He finished a BA degree in 1896. From 1897–1898, he studied in Leipzig, Heidelberg, and Paris. He went back to the U.S., and finished a PhD degree at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania for few years, before joining the University of Michigan as an assistant professor of history in 1903.[2] He became professor in 1906 and head of the history department in 1911. He taught history at Michigan until his death in 1930.[1] He lectured in the French provincial universities in 1913–1914.[2]
He married Belle Josling in 1896; they went on to have three sons, and one daughter.[1]
He died at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 21, 1930, after a long illness.[3]
Van Tyne wrote a number of books on the American Revolution. His works on the American Revolution include The Loyalists in the American Revolution (1902), The Causes of the War of Independence (1922), England & America: Rivals in the American Revolution (1927), and The War of Independence (1929). Additionally, he wrote Guide to the Archives of the Government of the United States in Washington (coauthor: Waldo G. Leland; 1904), A History of the United States for Schools (coauthor: Andrew C. McLaughlin; 1911) and India in Ferment (1923). He won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The War of Independence.[1]
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