Thursday, September 9, 2010
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian William H. Goetzmann Dies
Historian William H. Goetzmann, professor emeritus of history and American studies, died Sept. 7 at age 79.
A specialist in the American West, Goetzmann won both the Pulitzer and Parkman prizes in 1967 for his seminal book “Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West.” He later authored with son William N. Goetzmann “The West of the Imagination,” which became a PBS series in 1985. His most recent book “Beyond the Revolution: A History…
