Daniel Walker Howe

Professor Daniel Walker Howe is the Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University, and Professor of History Emeritus at UCLA. He is a scholar of New England's political and religious culture in the early nineteenth century and authority on Jacksonian America. Professor Howe is the author of The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861 (1970), which won the Brewster Prize of the American Society of Church History and also wrote The Political Culture of the American Whigs (1984). He is also the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history, the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize, the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Prize, and the Silver Medal of the California Book Awards, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007), emphasizing the innovations in communications and transportation that laid the foundations of modern America. His work has dealt chiefly with the intellectual and cultural history of antebellum America. He is a past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (2000-01), Historian-Laureate of the New York Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.