Columbia University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)
Historian, academic, professor, writer
Awards
Bancroft Prize (2006), Pulitzer Prize finalist (2006), Albert J. Beveridge Award (1984)
Robert Sean Wilentz (/wɪˈlɛnts/; born February 20, 1951) is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979.[1] His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
^"Wilentz webpage at Princeton University, Department of History". Princeton.edu. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
Robert SeanWilentz (/wɪˈlɛnts/; born February 20, 1951) is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History...
Times in December 2019, historians Gordon S. Wood, James M. McPherson, SeanWilentz, Victoria E. Bynum, and James Oakes applauded "all efforts to address...
book, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008, historian and journalist SeanWilentz argues that Reagan dominated this stretch of American history in the...
Wilentz may refer to: Amy Wilentz, American author SeanWilentz (b. 1951), Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor of History at Princeton University Robert...
Retrieved June 23, 2020. "The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016". Wilentz 2009, pp. 105–128 Wilentz, Sean. "Mystic Nights: The Making of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville"...
corruption or payoffs. What became of Jacksonian Democracy, according to SeanWilentz was diffusion. Many ex-Jacksonians turned their crusade against the Money...
communicate power and the gilded glow of success." Friedman quoted historian SeanWilentz as saying that, of the myriad of photos of Trump, it could be the most...
blog received the 2005 Koufax Award for "Best New Blog". According to SeanWilentz in the New Statesman, Greenwald "seemed to take pride in attacking Republicans...
campaign was a non-partisan campaign initiated by Anal Saha. Historian SeanWilentz argues that from the days of George Washington's farewell address, to...
Buren's support among Democrats and would derail his candidacy. Historian SeanWilentz describes some of the Democrat campaign tactics: In the South, Democrats...
have come out has often shed more heat than light" and critics such as SeanWilentz have noted that many of the Snowden documents do not concern domestic...
government to oppose laws the legislature deemed unconstitutional. Historian SeanWilentz explains the widespread opposition to these resolutions: Several states...
Constitution incorporates enlightened ideas. Princeton University historian SeanWilentz disputes the book's claims on taxes, the redistribution of wealth, the...
rights to liberty and freedom from taxation." Progressive historian SeanWilentz has denounced what he calls Beck's progressive-themed conspiracy theories...
risen; Princeton historian SeanWilentz in 2010 identified a scholarly trend very much in Hamilton's favor—although Wilentz himself dissented and still...
ISBN 1-84195-017-3. Wilentz, Sean (April 8, 2013). "Like a Rolling Stone: Rock legend Al Kooper opens up to Princeton's SeanWilentz about making music...
American social order, 1730-1840 (1996) p. 225-229, quoting p. 229. SeanWilentz, Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005) p. 274. Formisano...
of the 1619 Project, such as SeanWilentz of Princeton University, criticized the report of the 1776 Commission. Wilentz described the report as "the...
22. ISBN 978-1402742880. Organization of American Historians (2009). SeanWilentz; Organization of American Historians (eds.). The Best American History...
Country Music, page 352-354, Scarecrow Press, 2007 TCM Marty Robbins Films SeanWilentz & Greil Marcus, The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the...
Quarterly. 136 (2): 379–380. doi:10.1002/polq.13191. Retrieved 2024-04-12. SeanWilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008) Robert M. Collins (2009)...
Retrieved March 21, 2013. Organization of American Historians (2009). SeanWilentz; Organization of American Historians (eds.). The Best American History...
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