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Jon Ellis Meacham (/ ˈ m iː tʃ ə m /; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021.
These books have won the American Pulitzer Prize for History. For biographies of the historians, see Category:Pulitzer Prize for History winners. See also Category:Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography–winning works.
The book is a history of America from colonial days to those of Donald Trump.In seven chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, it traces the ups and downs of public issues including race, civil rights, immigration, women's suffrage and rights and internal and external threats to the democratic process, including the Ku Klux Klan and Communism.
[1] [2] The book is a history of the changing nature of African-American political power in the United States spanning six decades from around the end of the American Civil War to the Great Migration, when more than a million African Americans left the Southern United States for the Northern United States between about 1915 and 1930. [3]
Author John Meacham was recently installed as canon historian of the Washington National Cathedral. He delivered these remarks on Nov. 7.
Isabel Wilkerson (born 1961) is an African-American journalist and the author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010) and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020). She is the first woman of African-American heritage to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. [1]
David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most ...
Historian Jon Meacham speaks at the Capitol last year on the first anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. (Al Drago/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (Bloomberg via Getty Images)