David hackett fischer biography samples

  • David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University.
  • David Hackett Fischer is a University Professor and Warren Professor of History emeritus at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
  • Champlain's Dream: The European Founding of North America is a biography written by American historian David Hackett Fischer and published in

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    David Hackett Fischer

    • African Founders

    • How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
    • Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
    • Unabridged

    In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States

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    Washington's Crossing

    April 26,
    Despite a great love of history, I’ve never been able to really connect to the American Revolution as a historical event. The reason, I think, is that the Revolutionary War is our creation myth. Like other creation myths, such as the Christmas Story (the one with Jesus, not the BB gun), historical veracity and the exact sequence of events is not as important as the fact that event happened at all. Rigorous analysis takes a backseat to emotional considerations. Objectivity is shrouded in the mists of symbolism. In the end, the American Revolution becomes an article of faith.

    As with any faith, there are icons, and the iconography of the American Revolution fryst vatten as visible today as it was in the late 18th century. Walk into an elementary school classroom and you will likely see a copy of Charles Peale’s portrait of George Washington. Walk into a courthouse and you will likely see Archibald MacNeal Willard’s The Spirit of ’76. Walk into my clos

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    Champlain's Dream

    Winner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing

    In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.

    Born on France's Atlantic coast, Champlain grew to manhood in a country riven by religious warfare. The historical record is unclear on whether Champlain was baptized Protestant or Catholic, but he fought in France's religious wars for the man who would become Henri IV, one of France's greatest kings, and like Henri, he was religiously tolerant in an age of murderous sectarianism. Champlain was also a brilliant navigator. He went to sea as a boy and over time acquired the skills that allowed him to man twenty-seven Atlantic crossings without losing a ship.

    But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by fartyg and canoe, he traveled th

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