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 st ...

, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

Life

She graduated from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of Californi ...

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 highe ...

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 art ...

. 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 A ...

for '' A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico''.

Works

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References

External links

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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 sp ...

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 {{US-historian-stub