Daniel Rodgers

Professor Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He is a senior scholar of American cultural and intellectual history, U.S. history in comparative and transnational perspectives, and post-reconstruction U.S. history. His articles focus on the Progressive era, American exceptionalism, republicanism, and the election of 2000 as well. He is the author of Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998), which won the American Historical Association's Beer Prize and the Organization of American Historians' Hawley Prize, Age of Fracture (2011), which won the Bancroft Prize and John G. Cawelti Award, and the The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1978), which won the Organization of American Historians' prize, the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize. His has also received recognition for his Princeton teaching such as the Behrman Award and President's Award in 2012.