Amy S. Greenberg

Amy S. Greenberg (born 1968) is an American historian, and Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Women's Studies, at Pennsylvania State University.

Life

She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her PhD at Harvard University.

Awards

She was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim fellowship.

She received the Robert M. Utley Prize in 2013 from the Western History Association for A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico.

Works

• Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City. Princeton University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-691-01648-1. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
• Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. Cambridge University Press. 6 June 2005. ISBN 978-0-521-84096-5. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
• Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin's. 23 December 2011. ISBN 978-0-312-60048-8. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
• A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 6 November 2012. ISBN 978-0-307-96091-7. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
• Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk. New York: Knopf. 2019. ISBN 978-0385354134. Retrieved 8 December 2019.

External links

• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Greenberg discusses A Wicked War at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library on December 7, 2012
• Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk: Amy S. Greenberg lecture at the National Archives on February 15, 2019