Peter Silver

Peter Silver (born New Haven, Connecticut) is an early American historian.

Life He was raised in Richmond, Indiana. He graduated from Harvard College, magna cum laude, and from Yale University, with an MA and Ph.D. in 2001. He taught at Princeton University, where he held the Richard Allen Lester University Preceptorship. He teaches at Rutgers University.

He lives with his wife and daughter, spending holidays near Southwest Harbor, Maine.

Awards 1998-1999 Whiting Fellowship 2001 John Addison Porter Prize 2008 Bancroft Prize, Our Savage Neighbors 2008 Mark Lynton History Prize, Our Savage Neighbors

Works

A Rotten Colossus: Spanish and British America in the War of Jenkins's Ear.