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David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer
David Hackett Fischer is a University Professor and Warren Professor of History emeritus at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He is the author of numerous books, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner Washington’s Crossing and Champlain’s Dream. In 2015, he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.


How Empirical Databases Have Changed Our Understanding of Early American Slavery

David Hackett Fischer on New Tools of Truth-Seeking
June 2, 2022  By David Hackett Fischer
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