Edward Channing

Edward Perkins Channing ( born June 15, 1856 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, † January 7, 1931 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American historian, university professor and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Biography

The son of the poet William Ellery Channing Transcendentalist, Jr., great-nephew of William Ellery Channing preacher and theologian, and nephew of the woman 's rights activist Margaret Fuller studied post-school at Harvard University and completed his first degree in 1878. A subsequent post-graduate studies at Harvard University, he finished in 1880 with the acquisition of Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D. History). In 1883 he accepted an appointment as a professor at Harvard University and taught there for 46 years until his retirement in 1929.

In addition, he was from 1919 to 1920 president of the American Historical Association.

In addition to his teaching, he was also the author of several books, which he mainly dealt with the history of the United States. For his published between 1905 and 1925 A History of the United States in six volumes in 1926 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the category History. His other publications include:

• Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America (1884 )
• Guide to the Study and Reading of American History (1896, co-author Albert B. Hart)
• First Lessons in United States History (1904 )
• The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811 (1906 )
• The Story of the Great Lakes (1909 )