Authors on the Web
World Socialist Web Site, December 16, 2012
...Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer, 543 pages, Oxford University Press, 2004, $17.95 In Washington’s Crossing, published by Oxford University Press as part of its Pivotal Moments in American History series (series...
Globe and Mail, December 14, 2012
...by friends whose reading tastes I share: Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman and Champlain’s Dream, by David Hackett Fischer. This year's choices were made to cover a better understanding of how society is evolving as a system (Lee Rainie and Barry...
Atlantic Monthly, November 28, 2012
...popular historical memory. Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies, New Zealand and the United States David Hackett Fischer Oxford This comparison of the United States with New Zealand is a pioneering, illuminating, and at times...
Psychology Today, September 25, 2012
...Building on the work of academics such as Wilbur Zelinsky (The Cultural Geography of the United States) and David Hackett Fischer (Albion's Seed Woodard cites Zelinsky's "" as a key source for his work. Zelinsky's doctrine states that "Whenever an...
Yahoo! News, September 23, 2012
...couldn't subdue the barbarians of Scotland and instead built a gigantic wall, penning them in the north. David Hackett Fischer gives an example of the "exceptionally violent" backcountry ways from 1787 newspaper accounts in his book, Albion's Seed:...
Education News, September 3, 2012
...Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, and perhaps one of the Federalist Papers. History books, such as those by David Hackett Fischer, James McPherson, David McCullough, Ron Chernow, Paul Johnson, Martin Gilbert, etc. are not among the nonfiction...
Education News, August 30, 2012
...Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, and perhaps one of the Federalist Papers. History books, such as those by David Hackett Fischer, James McPherson, David McCullough, Ron Chernow, Paul Johnson, Martin Gilbert, etc. are not among the nonfiction...
History News Network, January 17, 2013
...on side, and Roundheads, Patriots, and Unionists on the other. It was a book closer in spirit to David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed than Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? While Phillips perhaps stretched his argument farther than an...
Daily Chronicle, January 15, 2013
...numbers of colonists established separate cultures that have persisted to our times. The story is brilliantly told in David Hackett Fischer’s “Albion’s Seed.” For a more downbeat version, read the recent “The Barbarous Years” by the...
Troy Record, January 15, 2013
...numbers of colonists established separate cultures that have persisted to our times. The story is brilliantly told in David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed." For a more downbeat version, read the recent "The Barbarous Years" by the nonagenarian...
Noozhawk.com, January 14, 2013
...numbers of colonists established separate cultures that have persisted to our times. The story is brilliantly told in David Hackett Fischer’s Albion’s Seed. For a more downbeat version, read the recent The Barbarous Years by the nonagenarian...
American Enterprise Institute, January 14, 2013
...numbers of colonists established separate cultures that have persisted to our times. The story is brilliantly told in David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed." For a more downbeat version, read the recent "The Barbarous Years" by the nonagenarian Bernard...
Investors Business Daily, January 14, 2013
...numbers of colonists established separate cultures that have persisted to our times. The story is brilliantly told in David Hackett Fischer's "Albion's Seed." For a more downbeat version, read the recent "The Barbarous Years" by the nonagenarian...
History News Network, January 14, 2013
...on side, and Roundheads, Patriots, and Unionists on the other. It was a book closer in spirit to David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed than Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? While Phillips perhaps stretched his argument farther than an...

