David Hackett Fischer
University Professor and Warren Professor of History
EDUCATION The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D. 1962 Princeton University, B.A. 1958 RESEARCH INTERESTS Early American History. Early Republic. Slavery and the Civil War. The American Revolution. World War II. CURRENT PROJECTS Freedom and Fairness: The United States and New Zealand "The Ebony Tree: African Folkways in America" Volume 2 |
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MAJOR PUBLICATIONS
Liberty and Freedom, Oxford: New York, 2005
Washington's Crossing, Oxford University Press, 2004
With James Kelly. Bound Away University Press of Virginia, 2000
The Great Wave: Price Revolution and the Rhythm of History Oxford University Press, 1996
Paul Revere's Ride Oxford University Press, 1994
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America Oxford University Press, 1989
Growing Old in America New York: Oxford University Press, 1977
Historian's Falacies New York: Harper & Row, 1970
The Revolution of American Conservatism New York: Harper & Row, 1965
COURSES OFFERED AT BRANDEIS
HIST 100a: Fire and Ice: An Ecological Approach to World History
HIST 151b: The American Revolution
HIST 152a: The Literature of American History
HIST 153b: Slavery and the American Civil War
HIST 166b: World War II
HIST 189b: Reading and Research in American History
HIST 200a: Colloquium in American History

