Howard Henry Peckham, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Howard Henry Peckham

American historian (1910-1995)

Date of Birth: 13-Jul-1910

Place of Birth: Lowell, Michigan, United States

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1995

Profession: librarian, historian, biographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Howard Henry Peckham, (July 13, 1910 – July 6, 1995) was a professor and historian and an authority on colonial and early American history who published a number of works on those subjects.
His academic career encompassed a wide variety of involvements in educational institutions and various historical societies.
He played a fundamental role in establishing professional academic standards for the management of historical manuscripts and historical society work in the 20th century that have endured to this day.
He was a founding member of the Society of American Archivists and the Director of the William L.
Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
Peckham and his associate, Lloyd A.
Brown, were the first historians to publish the American Revolutionary War journals of Henry Dearborn, in 1939, making them available to the general public for the first time.
He is also noted for establishing more accurate numbers of American Revolutionary War deaths, which were much greater than previously assumed.