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Pulitzer-Winning Historian Daniel Walker Howe Dies at 88

1/11/2026

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Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, died at age 88 on December 25, 2025.
He authored What Hath God Wrought (2008), which chronicles U.S. technological and social changes from 1815 to 1848.
Howe taught at UCLA and Yale, emphasizing the moral implications of economic progress.
His work contrasts with Charles Sellers’s The Market Revolution by presenting a more optimistic view of innovation as a force for democracy.

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Daniel Walker Howe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, died at age 88 on December 25, 2025.
He authored What Hath God Wrought (2008), which chronicles U.S. technological and social changes from 1815 to 1848.
Howe taught at UCLA and Yale, emphasizing the moral implications of economic progress.
His work contrasts with Charles Sellers’s The Market Revolution by presenting a more optimistic view of innovation as a force for democracy.