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Peter Silver

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Peter Silver
Born
EducationHarvard College
Yale University (MA, PhD)
OccupationHistorian
Children1
AwardsJohn Addison Porter Prize (2001)
Bancroft Prize (2008)
Mark Lynton History Prize (2008)

Peter Silver (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an early American historian.

Life

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He was raised in Richmond, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship.[1] He teaches at Rutgers University.[2][3]

He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.[4]

Awards

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Works

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  • Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06248-9.
  • A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.

References

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  1. ^ "Department of History". Archived from the original on 2012-10-15.
  2. ^ "Department of History | School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey". history.rutgers.edu.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-12-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "MaineLiteraryFestival.com is available at DomainMarket.com". MaineLiteraryFestival.com is available at DomainMarket.com.
  5. ^ "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
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