Eric Hinderaker
Eric A. Hinderaker is an American historian specializing in early America.Education and career
Hinderaker graduated from Watertown High School in 1977. He received his B.A. from Augustana College, an M.A. from the University of Colorado Boulder, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1991. He has spent his subsequent career at the University of Utah, where he is currently Distinguished Professor of History.
He is the author or co-author of six books including, most recently, Boston’s Massacre, which won the and was a finalist for the . His previous book, The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery, was awarded the Dixon Ryan Fox Prize by the New York Historical Association in 2009 and the from the New York Academy of History in 2014.
He is also co-author, with James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self, of the textbook America’s History, the 9th edition of which was published in 2017.
He is represented by the Garamond Agency.Publications
As sole author
- Elusive Empires: Constructing Colonialism in the Ohio Valley, 1673–1800
- The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery
- Boston’s Massacre
With Peter C. Mancall
With James Henretta, Rebecca Edwards, and Robert Self
Co-edited with Kirsten Fischer'
Colonial American History''
