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T. H. Breen is the Director of the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies and William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. He has taught at Northwestern since 1970. Breen's major books include The Character of the Good Ruler: A Study of Puritan Political Ideas in New England (1974) ; Puritans and Adventurers: Change and Persistence in Early America (1980) ; Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution (1985) ; and, with Stephen Innes of the University of Virginia, "Myne Owne Ground": Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore (1980) . His Imagining the Past (1989) won the 1990 Historic Preservation Book Award. His most recent book is Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (2004) . In addition to receiving several awards for outstanding teaching at Northwestern, Breen has been the recipient of research grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) , the National Humanities Center, and the Huntington Library. He has served as the Fowler Hamilton Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University (1987-1988) , the Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University (1990-1991) , the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University (2000-2001) , and was a recipient of the Humboldt Prize (Germany) . He has recently published American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People (2010) . He is now working on a book to be entitled Journey to a Nation: George Washington's Campaign to Bring the New Federal Government to the People 1789-1791.
