author
Edward Channing
1856–1931
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, he spent decades turning the story of the United States into a sweeping six-volume work that shaped how generations studied the nation’s past. He also taught at Harvard for many years and helped build American history into a modern academic field.
2 Audiobooks
A Short History of the United States for School Use
by Edward Channing
The story of the Great Lakes
by Edward Channing, Marion Florence Lansing
About the author
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1856, Edward Channing became one of the leading American historians of his era. He studied at Harvard, later joined its faculty, and taught history there for decades, earning a reputation as a careful scholar and influential teacher.
He is best remembered for History of the United States, a major six-volume series published over many years and covering the nation’s development from early beginnings through the Civil War. The work won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History and was widely valued for its depth, organization, and steady judgment.
Channing also played an important role in the professional world of historians, including work with the American Historical Association. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1931, leaving behind books that helped define the study of American history for much of the twentieth century.