Daniel T. Rodgers

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Daniel T. Rodgers (born 1942) is an American historian. He is an emeritus professor at Princeton University, and the author of several books.

Daniel T. Rodgers
Alma mater	Brown University Yale University (Ph.D.)
Awards	Bancroft Prize (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	American cultural and intellectual history
Institutions	Princeton University

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 for The Work Ethic in Industrial America
• 1999: Ellis W. Hawley Prize for Atlantic Crossings
• 1999: George Louis Beer Prize for Atlantic Crossings^[4]
• 2011: Bancroft Prize for 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.