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Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, dead at 88
Howe reshaped understanding of U.S. social and technological change in 1815-1848 and won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for his influential 900-page work.
- A UCLA spokesman said Daniel Walker Howe has died, the university reported.
- What Hath God Wrought traced technological and social change through the first half of the 19th century, ending with 1848, and its title derived from the first telegraph message.
- Howe documented Andrew Jackson's rise and slavery debates, chronicled newspapers and printing, roads/bridges/canals, and taught at Yale University, University of California, Los Angeles, and Oxford University.
- Awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Howe won for What Hath God Wrought in the Oxford University Press series, and UCLA said additional details about his death were not immediately available.
- Historian Jill Lepore praised the book as `a heroic attempt at synthesizing a century and a half of historical writing`, and Howe argued innovation often fostered moral improvements linked to the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
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