Daniel Walker Howe

Daniel Gething Walker Howe (January 10, 1937 – December 25, 2025) was an American historian who specialized in the early national period of U.S. history, with a particular interest in its intellectual and religious dimensions.

He was Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University in England (from 1992 to 2002 then Emeritus) and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles. He won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for History for What Hath God Wrought (2007). He was president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in 2001, and was a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Historical Society.