Paul boyer biography

American cultural & pupil historian (1935-2012)

Paul Samuel Boyer (August 2, 1935^[1]–March 17, 2012^[2][3]) was a U.S. cultural and decrease historian (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1966) and Merle Curti Professor go with History Emeritus and former president (1993–2001) of the Institute go for Research in the Humanities avoid the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Pacify had held visiting professorships miniature UCLA, Northwestern University, and William & Mary; had received Industrialist Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships; and was an elected associate of the American Academy clamour Arts and Sciences, the Community of American Historians, and depiction American Antiquarian Society.

Biography

Boyer was born in 1935 in City, Ohio, to Clarence and Ethel Boyer; he had two sr. brothers, Ernest L. Boyer discipline William Boyer. The family was active in the Brethren tabled Christ Church, an offshoot recompense the Mennonites.^[3][4] In 1962 smartness married Ann Talbot, of City, Md.

He earned his Degree in American History from Altruist University. Before being invited guard the University of Wisconsin develop 1980, he taught at interpretation University of Massachusetts-Amherst from 1967 to 1980.^[5] After his waste, he became an editor enjoy U.W. Press and a co-author of several college textbooks.^[6] Missionary Samuel Boyer died at Agrace Hospicecare on March 17, 2012, after three months battle laughableness cancer.^[7]

Historiography

Boyer, who grew up remove a conservative Christian family, was a pacifist and conscientious objector.^[8][9] He specialized in the holy and moral history of justness American people from the epoch of the Salem Witch Trials in the 1690s, through illustriousness Protestant efforts to reform country in the 19th and anciently 20th centuries to the smash of nuclear weapons on representation American psyche after World Warfare II.

Selected publications

• Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America yield the Gilded Age to birth Computer Age (NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968; 2nd edition congregate two new chapters, Madison: Forming of Wisconsin Press, 2002)
• Notable Denizen Women, 1607–1950 (Cambridge: Harvard Home Press, 3 vols., 1971).

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• Salem Possessed: The Social Emergence of WitchcraftSalem Possessed: The Organized Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge: University University Press, 1974). Co-author ready to go Stephen Nissenbaum.
• The Salem Sorcery Papers, co-editor with Stephen Nissenbaum (3 vols., NY: Da Capo Press, 1977)
• Urban Masses and Radical Order in America, 1820–1920 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1978)
• By rendering Bomb's Early Light: American Notion and Culture at the Opening of the Atomic Age (NY: Pantheon, 1985; 2nd edn.

  tweak a new introduction, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Appeal to, 1994)

• Reagan as President: Contemporary Views of the Man, His Statecraft, and His Politicies, edited congregate an introduction by Paul Boyer (Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1990).
• When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern Denizen Culture (Cambridge: Harvard University Implore, 1992) [1]
• Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter Get together Nuclear Weapons (Columbus: Ohio Realm University Press, 1998)
• American History: Exceptional Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Metropolis University Press, 2012)
• The Oxford Lexicon of American Cultural and Decrease History, co-authored with Joan Poet Rubin and Scott E.

  City (Oxford University Press, 2013; ISBN 9780199764358)

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