Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Walker Howe (1937-2025) was an American historian specializing in the early national period of U.S. history, particularly its intellectual and religious dimensions. His most notable work, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History, along with the SHEAR Book Prize and New-York Historical Society Book Prize; other significant books include Making the American Self and The Political Culture of the American Whigs. A professor at UCLA and Rhodes Professor at Oxford, he was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society.