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Justin Harvey Smith
1857–1930
Best known for bringing the Mexican–American War into sharp focus, this Pulitzer Prize–winning historian wrote with the patience of a researcher and the drive of a storyteller. His work helped make a complicated, often overlooked conflict legible to general readers.
2 Audiobooks
The War with Mexico, Volume 2 (of 2)
by Justin Harvey Smith
The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)
by Justin Harvey Smith
About the author
Born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, in 1857, Justin Harvey Smith studied at Dartmouth College and later at Union Theological Seminary. Before devoting himself fully to historical research, he worked in publishing and then taught modern history at Dartmouth.
Smith became a leading specialist on the Mexican–American War. After leaving Dartmouth in 1908 to focus on scholarship, he published The Annexation of Texas in 1911 and then The War with Mexico in 1919, the two-volume study most closely associated with his name.
That book won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for History, and his research career also included service as chairman of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of the American Historical Association. He died in Brooklyn in 1930, leaving behind work still noted for its depth and ambition.