- Listenly
- Public Library
- All Authors
- Edward Channing
author
Edward Channing
1856–1931
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, he spent much of his career at Harvard and became best known for his sweeping multi-volume history of the United States. His work helped shape how generations of readers understood early American history.
1 Audiobook
A Short History of the United States for School Use
by Edward Channing
About the author
Born in 1856, Edward Channing was an American historian whose career was closely tied to Harvard University, where he taught from the 1880s until 1929. He is best remembered for A History of the United States, a large multi-volume project that traced the country’s development from its earliest periods through the Civil War.
Channing was known for making big historical subjects readable and organized for general readers as well as students. His scholarship earned major recognition late in life when he received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History for the sixth volume of A History of the United States.
He died in 1931, leaving behind one of the most ambitious narrative histories of the United States produced in his era. For listeners interested in classic American historical writing, his work offers a window into both the nation’s past and the way that past was interpreted in the early 20th century.