Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished
Professor
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of
History
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at
Brooklyn College
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Being New York City's first publ ...
. He is the co-author of the
Pulitzer Prize
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-winning ''
Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'' (1998), and author of ''Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War,'' (2008), which won the 2009
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Burrows received his BA from the
University of Michigan
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in 1964, and his PhD from
Columbia University
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in 1973, where he studied under
Eric McKitrick
Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American historian, best known for ''The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800'' (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994.
Life
McKitrick ...
. The same year, he began teaching at
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolls about 15,000 undergraduate and 2,800 graduate students on a 35-acre campus.
Being New York City's first publ ...
, where his course on the
History of New York City
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The "Sons of Liberty" campaigned against British authority in New York Ci ...
was one of the college's most popular offerings. He resided in
Northport, New York
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on
Long Island
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. Burrows died at the age of 74 in May 2018.
Edwin G. Burrows, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, dies at 74
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References
External links
Interview
with Burrows on "New Books in History"
C-SPAN's BookTV
Burrows talks about "Forgotten Patriots" at the National Archives, November 19, 2008.
1943 births
2018 deaths
Columbia University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Pulitzer Prize for History winners
Historians of New York City
Brooklyn College faculty
20th-century American historians
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
People from Northport, New York
Writers from Detroit
Historians from New York (state)
American male non-fiction writers
Historians from Michigan
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