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Robert V. Bruce
ROBERT VANCE BRUCE (December 19, 1923 - January 15, 2008) was an award-winning American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The...view moreROBERT VANCE BRUCE (December 19, 1923 - January 15, 2008) was an award-winning American historian specializing in the American Civil War. He won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876 (1987).
Born in Malden, Massachusetts, he served in the Army during World War II and thereafter graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He received his Master of Arts in history and his Doctor of Philosophy from Boston University, where he was later a professor. He also taught at the University of Bridgeport, Lawrence Academy at Groton, and the University of Wisconsin.
Additionally, he was Guggenheim Fellow (1957), Huntington Library Fellow (1966), President of the Lincoln Group of Boston (1969-1974), Fellow of the Society of American Historians (1974), R. Gerald McMurtry Lecturer on Abraham Lincoln (1981) and Fortenbaugh Lecturer at Gettysburg College (1989).
He is the author of multiple works, including: 1877: Year of Violence (1959); Two Roads to Plenty: An Analysis of American History (1964); Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude (1973); Lincoln and the Riddle of Death (1981); and The Shadow of a Coming War (1989).
Bruce died in 2008 in Olympia, Washington at the age of 84.view less