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Awards | Bancroft Prize (1969) |
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Institutions | Amherst College |
Norman Gordon Levin Jr. is an American historian,and Emeritus Dwight Morrow Professor of History and American Studies at Amherst College.
He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1956,and graduated from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in 1967. He has taught at Amherst College since 1964,where he specializes in diplomatic history,Israeli history,and the history of nationalism. [1] He was a recipient of the Bancroft Prize in 1969 for his book Woodrow Wilson and World Politics. [2]
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