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

Early life

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

Career

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

• 1978 Frederick Jackson Turner Award, The Work Ethic in Industrial America
• 1999 Ellis W. Hawley Prize, Atlantic Crossings
• 1999 George Louis Beer Prize, Atlantic Crossings^[4]
• 2011 Bancroft Prize, Age of Fracture

Works

• 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

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN