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Name
  
Ronald Shaw

Role
  
Historian


Died
  
April 4, 2001


Education
  
University of Rochester

Ronald E. Shaw (1924 – April 4, 2001) was an American historian.

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Life

He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a Ph.D. He taught at Wayne State University, and Miami University from 1954 until 1993, the first W. E. Smith Professor of History.

Awards

  • 1965 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
  • Works

  • Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790-1860. University Press of Kentucky. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8131-0815-5.  Reprint of 1990 volume.
  • Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854. University Press of Kentucky. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8131-0801-8.  Reprint of the original 1966 volume.
  • References

    Ronald E. Shaw Wikipedia