John L. Brooke Explained

John L. Brooke
Education:	Cornell University University of Pennsylvania
Workplaces:	Franklin & Marshall College Amherst College Tufts University Ohio State University
Discipline:	Historian
Awards:	Merle Curti Award Bancroft Prize Guggenheim Fellowship

John L. Brooke (born 1953)^[1] is an American historian.

Life

Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982. He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University.He most recently teaches at Ohio State University.^[2]

Awards

1991 Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians^[3]
National Historical Society Book Prize
1995 Bancroft Prize
1997 Guggenheim Fellow^[4]
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

Works

Book: The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861. Cambridge University Press. 1989. 978-0-521-67339-6 . (2nd edition 2005)
Book: The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press. 1994. 978-0-521-56564-6 .
Book: Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. Cambridge University Press. 2014. 978-0-521-69218-2 .
Book: There Is A North. Massachusetts Press. 2019. 978-1-62534-447-2 .

Notes and References

Web site: Society, revolution, and the symbolic uses of the dead : an historical... . Copyright Catalog (1978 to present) . . 2010-04-07.
Web site: OSU Department of History . 2009-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100628052632/http://history.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?id=668 . 2010-06-28 .
Web site: Merle Curti Award Winners . 2009-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090329234004/http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/curti/winners.html . 2009-03-29 .
Web site: John L. Brooke - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2009-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110604004904/http://www.gf.org/fellows/1825-john-l-brooke . 2011-06-04 .