David Hackett Fischer
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David Hackett Fischer (b. December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. His major works have tackled everthing from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (Albion's Seed, The Great Wave) to narrative histories of significant events (Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies).
He is most well-known for his major study Albion's Seed, which argued that core aspects of American culture stem from several different British folkways and regional cultures, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing, a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776-1777 during the American Revolutionary War.
Selected works
- Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas]] (2004) ISBN 0195162536
- Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) ISBN 0195170342
- The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (2000) ISBN 019505377X
- Paul Revere's Ride (1995) ISBN 0195088476
- Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) ISBN 0195037944
- The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (1976) ISBN 0226251357
- Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (1970) ISBN 0061315451
External links
- [A review of David Hackett Fischer's Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought]
- [Brandeis University Faculty Guide]
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