Amy S. Greenberg (born 1968) is an American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at
Pennsylvania State University
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.
Life
She graduated from the
University of California at Berkeley
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and earned her PhD at
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
.
Awards
She was awarded a 2009
Guggenheim fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
She received the
Robert M. Utley Prize in 2013 from the
Western History Association
The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961 at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington et al. Included in the field of study are the American West and western Canada. The Western History ...
for '' A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico''.
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Greenberg discusses ''A Wicked War''at the
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
The Pritzker Military Museum & Library (formerly Pritzker Military Library) is a non-profit museum and a research library for the study of military history on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. The institution was founded in 2003, and its spe ...
on December 7, 2012
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk Amy S. Greenberg lecture at the National Archives on February 15, 2019
21st-century American historians
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
American women historians
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
21st-century American women writers
1968 births
Living people
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