Fred Albert Shannon (February 12, 1893 – February 4, 1963) was an American historian and a Pulitzer Prize winner. He had many publications related to the American history, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for History for The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865.
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Biography
Shannon was born in February 12, 1893 at Sedalia, Missouri. He completed a BA degree from the Indiana State Teachers College and an MA degree from Indiana University in 1918. He worked as a school teacher, and then became professor of history at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1919. Five years later, he completed a PhD degree in philosophy and became assistant professor of history at the Iowa State Teachers College. In 1926 he moved to the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. He was associate professor of history at Kansas State. He also taught at Cornell College (1924) and Ohio State University (1929) in the summer session.[1]
He was a member of the American Historical Association. He was in the executive committee of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. [1]
He died on February 4, 1963. He had just begun a semester as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina. [2]
Assessment of his work
Shannon edited various publications, and contributed to professional journals.[1] He wrote history from the perspective of an average American. He believed that it was the value of average Americans that shaped the United States, and he had low regard for wealthy Americans.[3] In 1928 Shannon wrote a two-volume book The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865, which covered the history of the Union Army.[3][1] He won the Pulitzer Prize for History for the book in 1929.[1]
Selected publications
- The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861-1865 (1928)
- The Farmer’s Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860-1897 (1945)
- American Farmers’ Movements (1957)
- The Centennial Years: A Political and Economic History of America from Late 1870s to the Early 1890s (1967)
Notes
References
- Fischer, Heinz Dietrich; Erika J. Fischer (1994). American History Awards, 1917-1991: From Colonial Settlements to the Civil Rights Movement. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3598301774.
- Brennan, Elizabeth A.; Elizabeth C. Clarage (1999). Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 1573561118.
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