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Daniel Walker Howe is an American historian who specializes in the early national period of U.S. history and in the intellectual and religious dimensions. He is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University in England and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the annual Pulitzer Prize for History in 2008 for What Hath God Wrought, his most famous book. He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Howe was born in Ogden, Utah and graduated from East High School in Denver. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University in 1959, magna cum laude in American History and Literature, and his Ph.D. in History at University of California, Berkeley in 1966. He resides in Sherman Oaks, California and is married with three grown children.
Howe's connection with Oxford University began when he matriculated at Magdalen College to read Modern History in 1960; he received the M.A. in 1965. In 1989–1990 he was Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College. In 1992 he became a permanent member of the Oxford History Faculty and a Fellow of St Catherine's College until his retirement in 2002. Brasenose College elected him an Honorary Member of its Senior Common Room.
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