Daniel T. Rodgers (born 1942) is an American historian. He is an emeritus professor at Princeton University, and the author of several books.

Daniel T. Rodgers
Alma materBrown University
Yale University (Ph.D.)
AwardsBancroft Prize (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsAmerican cultural and intellectual history
InstitutionsPrinceton University

Early life

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Rodgers was born in 1942 in Pennsylvania. He graduated from Brown University in Engineering, and from Yale University with a Ph.D.[1]

Career

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Rodgers was Henry Charles Lea Professor at Princeton University until 2012.[1] He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2007.[2]

His work appeared in Harper's.[3] He has written a history of social ideas across the last three decades of the twentieth century in the United States.

Awards

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Works

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  • The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920. University of Chicago Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-226-72352-5.
  • Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence. Basic Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-674-16711-7.
  • Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Harvard University Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-674-00201-2.
  • Age of Fracture. Harvard University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-0-674-05744-9.
  • As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon. Princeton University Press. 2018. ISBN 978-0-691-18437-1.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Daniel Rodgers". Department of History. Princeton University. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  2. ^ "Daniel T. Rodgers". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  3. ^ "Daniel T. Rodgers". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  4. ^ "George Louis Beer Prize Recipients". American Historical Association. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
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