Fred Anderson is an American historian of early North American history. Anderson received his B.A. from Colorado State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1981. He has taught at Harvard and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he is currently Professor of History. He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center of Harvard University, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the author or editor of five books including Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, which won the Mark Lynton History Prize and the 2001 Francis Parkman Prize as best book in American history. Together with Andrew Cayton, he has recently published The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000. His newest book,The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War is a companion to the four-hour PBS series "The War that Made America," which was broadcast January 18 and 25, 2006. 

January 1st, 1949 in (Age 75)