David Hackett Fischer

David Hackett Fischer is an American historian and University Professor of History Emeritus at Brandeis University, where he taught for about fifty years. Born in Baltimore, he studied at Princeton and received his PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1962. His books range from large studies of cultural and economic change, such as Albion's Seed and The Great Wave, to narrative histories such as Paul Revere's Ride and Washington's Crossing, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for History. He also wrote Historians' Fallacies, in which he coined the term historian's fallacy, and received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing in 2015.