Peter Silver

Peter Silver
Born	New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	Harvard College Yale University (MA, PhD)
Occupation	Historian
Children	1
Awards	John Addison Porter Prize (2001) Bancroft Prize (2008) Mark Lynton History Prize (2008)

Peter Silver (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an early American historian.

Life

He was raised in Richmond, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship.[1] He teaches at Rutgers University.[2][3]

He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.[4]

Awards

• 1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship
• 2001 John Addison Porter Prize
• 2008 Bancroft Prize, Our Savage Neighbors
• 2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, Our Savage Neighbors[5]

Works

• Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-06248-9.
• A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.

References

1. "Department of History". Archived from the original on 2012-10-15.
2. "Department of History | School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey". history.rutgers.edu.
3. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
4. "Peter Silver". MaineLiteraryFestival.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2011.
5. "J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project winners". Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Retrieved 16 March 2011.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "The Older South?", Reviews in American History, Volume 31, Number 2, June 2003
• "Book Reviews: Our Savage Neighbors", Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, July 2008^[permanent dead link‍]
• Appearances on C-SPAN