''The Atlantic Migration, 1607–1860: A History of the Continuing Settlement of the United States'' is a nonfiction history book by American historian
Marcus Lee Hansen (1892-1938). The book covers the social and economic background of emigrant groups to the United States from colonial days to the
American Civil War.
The book was published after the death of Hansen. Historian
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Sr. (; February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history. He was a Progressive Era intellectual who stressed material caus ...
turned the rough draft developed by Hansen into a polished manuscript. The book was published by the
Harvard University Press in 1940.
The book won the 1941
Pulitzer Prize for History.
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1940 non-fiction books
Pulitzer Prize for History-winning works
Harvard University Press books