Daniel Walker Howe is Rhodes Professor of American History Emeritus at Oxford University and Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles. He is the author of Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln and The Unitarian Conscience: Harvard Moral Philosophy, 1805-1861, among other books.

Mr. Howe grew up in Denver and now lives with his wife in Sherman Oaks, California.

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