About Walter A. McDougall

Co-Chair, History Institute for Teachers
Co-Chairman, Center for the Study of America and the West

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Walter McDougall is Co-chair, with David Eisenhower, of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers and Co-chair, with James Kurth, of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West. He is also the Allyn-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 1974 and is a veteran of the Vietnam War.

His books include

The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age, which won a Pulitzer Prize
Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776;
Let the Sea Make a Noise: A History of the North Pacific from Magellan to MacArthur;
Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History, 1585-1828, the first volume of a trilogy on the history of the United States; and
Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877 (Harpers, March 2008).

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