Frederic L. Paxson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Frederic L. Paxson

Pulitzer Prize for History winner

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1877

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1948

Profession: historian, author, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Frederic L. Paxson

  • Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was an American historian.
  • He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association.
  • He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University.
  • He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier.
  • His 1925 Pulitzer Prize was for History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893.

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