Anne Hyde

Anne Farrar Hyde (born 1960) is an American historian, author, and professor, specializing in the U.S. West and comparative North American history. Hyde wrote award-winning books such as Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860 and An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture, 1820–1920. Her most recent book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed Descent Families and the Making of the American West, 2021, is published by W. W. Norton.

Education Anne Hyde was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but was raised in Reno, Nevada. In 1982, Hyde received her Bachelor of Arts in American Studies at Mount Holyoke College.

In 2011 she was elected to serve on the American Historical Association's Council. She began working on the AHA's Tuning Project, serving as its Faculty Director, starting in 2012. She edited, with dozens of others, the 2013 and 2016 History Discipline Core.

Works Anne Hyde wrote many pieces during her career. One of her first ones, "An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and American Culture, 1820–1920" was written in 1991 — and won the 1992 W. Turrentine Jackson Award.

In 2000, Professor Hyde co-wrote "The West in the History of the Nation" with William Deverell.

In 2012, Professor Hyde published "Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860" — which won the 2012 Bancroft Prize, and the Caughey Western History Prize. This book was also a Pulitzer Prize finalist in History.

Professor Hyde also wrote the introduction to "Frémont's First Impressions: The Original Report of His Exploring Expeditions of 1842–1844" that was published in 2012.

Most recently, her book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed Descent Families and the Making of the American West, 2021,