Steven Hahn

Steven Hahn
Steven Hahn
Born	Steven Howard Hahn; July 18, 1951(age 72); New York City, US
Awards	Bancroft Prize(2004); Pulitzer Prize(2004);
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Rochester; Yale University;
Thesis	The Roots of Southern Populism(1979)
Doctoral advisor	Howard R. Lamar; C. Vann Woodward;
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	University of Delaware; University of California, San Diego; Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania; New York University;
Doctoral students	Greg Downs,Justin Behrend
Notable works	A Nation Under Our Feet(2003)

Steven Howard Hahn(born 1951) is Professor of History atNew York University.^[1]

Life[edit]

Hahn was born on July 18, 1951, in New York City. Educated at theUniversity of Rochester,where he worked withEugene Genoveseand Herbert Gutman,^{[citation needed]}Hahn received his PhD degree fromYale University.^[2]His dissertation was overseen byC. Vann Woodward,and laterHoward R. Lamar.

He has written on the South, slavery and emancipation, the Populist Era, rural cultures, and social migration. His first book wasThe Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890(Oxford University Press, 1983). This study was important because it provided a detailed and original account of the political ideology of white southern small farmers. At the time this group, the majority of the American South, had received relatively little scholarly attention. Hahn presented the southern yeomen as non-capitalist in crucial respects, and describes how they were undermined by the increasing commercialization of Southern agriculture after the Civil War. Populists were presented as having had almost no interest in a genuinely biracial polity.

In 2003 Hahn published his second bookA Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration,which won the 2004Pulitzer Prize for History.Several historians have noted that in this book a union of black and white workers is presented as a much more likely possibility. In 2009 he publishedThe Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom,a version of the Nathan I. Huggins Lecture he delivered at Harvard University two years earlier. His latest book,A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Warswas published in 2016 by Penguin Press.

Hahn has won a number of teaching awards and has been supported in his research by theGuggenheim Foundation,theAmerican Council of Learned Societies,theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciencesat Stanford, and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

Hahn has taught at the University of Delaware, the University of California, San Diego, Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. He has two children, Declan Hahn and Saoirse, and lives in New York City.

Awards[edit]

1980Allan Nevins Prizeof theSociety of American Historians,for his doctoral dissertation,The Roots of Southern Populism^[3]
1984Frederick Jackson Turner Awardof theOrganization of American Historians,forThe Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850–1890
2004Pulitzer Prize for History,forA Nation Under Our Feet
2004Bancroft Prize,forA Nation Under Our Feet
Merle Curti Awardin Social History from theOrganization of American Historians

Bibliography[edit]

Steven Hahn; Jonathan Prude, eds. (1985).The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America.University of North Carolina Press.ISBN 978-0-8078-4139-6.Steven Hahn.
Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Series III: Land and Labor in 1865.Cambridge University Press. 2004.
A Nation Under our Feet.Harvard University Press. 2003.ISBN 978-0-674-01169-4.Steven Hahn.
Steven Hahn (2006).The roots of southern populism: yeoman farmers and the transformation of the Georgia upcountry, 1850-1890.Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-530670-5.
Steven Hahn (2009).The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom.Harvard University Press.ISBN 978-0-674-03296-5.Steven Hahn.
Steven Hahn (2017).A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars.Penguin Books.ISBN 978-0-143-12178-7.
Steven Hahn (2024).Illiberal America: a History.W. W. Norton & Company.ISBN 978-0-393-63592-8.

References[edit]

^"Steven Hahn | Department of History | New York University".as.nyu.edu.Retrieved2018-01-24.
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^"Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners".Society of American Historians. Archived fromthe originalon July 19, 2011.Retrieved16 March2011.

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Awards
Preceded by Rosalind Rosenberg	Frederick Jackson Turner Award 1984	Succeeded by Barton C. Shaw
Preceded by James F. Brooks	Bancroft Prize 2004 With:Edward L. AyersandGeorge Marsden	Succeeded by Melvin Patrick Ely
Preceded by Alan Gallay		Succeeded by Michael Klarman
Preceded by Alan Gallay		Succeeded by Michael O'Brien
Preceded by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz	Merle Curti Award 2004 With:Colin G. CallowayandGeorge Marsden	Succeeded by Steven Mintz
Preceded by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz		Succeeded by Michael O'Brien
Preceded by Rick Atkinson	Pulitzer Prize for History 2004	Succeeded by David Hackett Fischer

[1] "Steven Hahn | Department of History | New York University".as.nyu.edu.Retrieved2018-01-24.

[2] CV

[3] "Allan Nevins Prize - Past Winners".Society of American Historians. Archived fromthe originalon July 19, 2011.Retrieved16 March2011.

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