He is best known for his major study Albion's Seed, which argued that core aspects of American culture stem from several different British folkways and regional cultures, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History), a narrative of George Washington's leadership of the Continental Army during the winter of 1776-1777 during the American Revolutionary War.

He is currently at work on a biography of Samuel de Champlain, a French explorer and founder of Quebec City.

Selected works

• Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas (2005) ISBN 0-19-516253-6
• Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) ISBN 0-19-517034-2
• The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (2000) ISBN 0-19-505377-X
• Paul Revere's Ride (1994) ISBN 0-19-508847-6
• Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989) ISBN 0-19-503794-4
• The Revolution of American Conservatism: The Federalist Party in the Era of Jeffersonian Democracy (1976) ISBN 0-226-25135-7
• Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought (1970) ISBN 0-06-131545-1

External links

• A review of David Hackett Fischer's Historians' Fallacies : Toward a Logic of Historical Thought
• Brandeis University Faculty Guide
• Brandeis University History Department Faculty Page