Frederic L. Paxson

Frederic Logan Paxson (February 23, 1877 in Philadelphia – October 24, 1948 in Berkeley, California) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American historian. He had also been President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association. He had degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. From 1932 to 1947 he taught at the University of California.

As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. His 1925 Pulitzer Prize was for History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893.[1]

Among his students was Earl S. Pomeroy, a historian of the American West.

The term "Historical Engineering" was coined by Mr. Paxson to describe the wartime work he had done in revising textbooks to suit the mood of the era,[2] by "explaining the issues of the war that we might the better win it."

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  1. ↑ Paxson, Frederic Logan (1924-01-01). History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893. Houghton Mifflin.
  2. ↑ Novick, Peter (1988). That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context). Cambridge University Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-0-521-35745-6. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
  3. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) (1971-01-01). The independence of the South-American republics; a study in recognition and foreign policy. New York, Cooper Square Publishers.
  4. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) (1910-01-01). The last American frontier. New York, Macmillan.
  5. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan). The Civil War. New York, H. Holt.
  6. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (1917-09-01). The Rise of Sport. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review.
  7. ↑ United States. Committee on Public Information. War cyclopedia: a handbook for ready reference on the great war. Ed. by Frederic L. Paxson, University of Wisconsin, Edward S. Corwin, Princeton University, Samuel B. Harding, Indiana University. Govt. Print. Off.,.
  8. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (2008-08-01). The New Nation. BiblioBazaar. ISBN 9780554461779.
  9. ↑ Paxson, Frederic Logan (1924-01-01). History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893. Houghton Mifflin.
  10. ↑ "Frederic L. Paxson". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  11. ↑ Frederic L. Paxson (1939-01-01). America At War 1917 1918. Houghton Mifflin Company.
  12. ↑ Paxson, Frederic L. (1948-01-01). Postwar Years, Normalcy, 1918-1923.

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