Daniel Walker Howe, an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S.
history, died on December 25, 2025. He focused particularly on the period’s intellectual and religious dimensions.
Howe was Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University from 1992 to 2002 and later emeritus, and was professor of history emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History for “What Hath God Wrought” (2007). He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001 and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Born in Ogden, Utah, on January 10, 1937, he graduated from East High School in Denver, earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1959 and received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966.
Daniel Gething Walker Howe (January 10, 1937 – December 25, 2025) was an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S. history, with a particular interest in its intellectual and religious dimensions.