Peter Silver (born

New Haven, Connecticut New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

) is an early 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 ...

Life

He was raised in

Richmond, Indiana Richmond is a city in eastern Wayne County, Indiana. Bordering the state of Ohio, it is the county seat of Wayne County and is part of the Dayton, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,812. Situa ...

. He graduated from

Harvard College Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, an Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636, Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University, the oldest institution of higher lea ...

, magna cum laude, and from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship. He teaches at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

. He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near

Southwest Harbor, Maine Southwest Harbor is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States. Located on Mount Desert Island, the population was 1,756 at the 2020 census. The municipality contains within it the villages of Southwest Harbor, Manset, Seawall, Wonderland, ...

Awards

* 1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship * 2001

John Addison Porter Prize The John Addison Porter Prize is a literary award given annually by Yale University to the best work of scholarship in any field "where it is possible, through original effort, to gather and relate facts or principles, or both, and to present the ...

* 2008 Bancroft Prize, ''Our Savage Neighbors'' * 2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, ''Our Savage Neighbors''

Works

* * ''A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.''

References

External links

"Author's website"
*[http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/pmh/132.3/br_3.html "Book Reviews: Our Savage Neighbors", ''Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography'', July 2008] * 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Harvard College alumni Yale University alumni Princeton University faculty Rutgers University faculty Living people People from Mount Desert Island Writers from Richmond, Indiana Year of birth missing (living people) Bancroft Prize winners American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub