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(1916-1970) Historian. Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 and died in 1970. Hofstadter was the winner of two Pulitzer prizes.

Full Name

Richard Hofstadter

Locations

Erie

Author's Timeline


1916

BIRTH

Richard Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916.

1937

OTHER

Hofstadter graduated from the University of Buffalo in 1937.

1938

OTHER

Hofstadter received his M.A. from Columbia University in 1938.

1942

OTHER

Hofstadter received his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1942.

1944

LITWORK

Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915


Nonfiction.

1946

OTHER

Hofstadter taught in the History Department at Columbia University from 1946 until 1970.

1948

LITWORK

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It


Nonfiction.

1955

LITWORK

The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.


Nonfictiion.

1964

LITWORK

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life


Nonfiction.

1965

LITWORK

The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essays


Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

The Progressive Historians


Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

The Idea of a Party System


Nonfiction.

1970

DEATH

Richard Hofstadter died in 1970.

1971

LITWORK

America in 1750: A Social Portrait


Nonfiction.

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