T. H. Breen

T.H. Breen is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He studies the history of the early America with special interest in political thought, material culture, and cultural anthropology. Breen has held posts as the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University and the Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University. He has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is the winner of the T. Saloutus Prize for his book Tobacco Culture: the Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters of the Eve of Revolution, and the Historical Preservation Book Prize for his work Imagining the Past: East Hampton Histories. In 2010 he will release his latest book American Insurgents – America Patriots: The Revolution of the People.