David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer (born December 2, 1935) is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. Fischer's major works have tackled everything from large macroeconomic and cultural trends (Albion's Seed, The Great Wave) to narrative histories of significant events (Paul Revere's Ride, Washington's Crossing) to explorations of historiography (Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term Historian's fallacy).

He is best known for his major study Albion's Seed, which argued that core aspects of American culture stem from several different British folkways and regional cultures, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History), a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776-1777 during the American Revolutionary War.

In 2008 he published Champlain's Dream, an exploration of Samuel de Champlain, the French explorer and founder of Quebec City.

Fischer received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his B.A. from Princeton University. He received the 2006 Irving Kristol Award from the American Enterprise Institute.

Selected works

• Champlain's Dream (2008)
• Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (2005) ISBN 0-19-516253-6
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) ISBN 0-19-517034-2
• The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (2000) ISBN 0-19-505377-X
• Paul Revere's Ride (1994) ISBN 0-19-508847-6
• Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) ISBN 0-19-503794-4
• The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (1976) ISBN 0-226-25135-7
• Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (1970) ISBN 0-06-131545-1
• Concord: The Social History of a New England Town 1750-1850 (1984) (Editor)

External links

• A review of David Hackett Fischer's Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
• Brandeis University History Department Faculty Page
• They Didn't Name That Lake for Nothing, Sunday Book Review, The New York Times, Oct. 31, 2008

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