Paul S. Boyer AKA Paul Samuel Boyer Born: 2-Aug-1935 Birthplace: Dayton, OH Died: 17-Mar-2012 Location of death: Madison, WI Cause of death: Cancer - Liver
Gender: Male Religion: Protestant [1] Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States Executive summary: When Time Shall Be No More [1] Brethren in Christ Church (sect of Mennonites).
Father: Clarence Boyer Mother: Ethel Brother: Ernest L. Boyer (educator, d. 1995) Brother: William Boyer Wife: Ann (until his death, one son, one daughter) Son: Alex Daughter: Kate
University: Upland College (transferred) University: PhD, Harvard University (1966) Professor: American History, University of Massachusetts Amherst (1967-80) Professor: American History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980-2002) Director: Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1993-2001)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences American Antiquarian Society
Society of American Historians Guggenheim Fellowship
Author of books:
Purity in Print: The Vice-Society Movement and Book Censorship in America (1968, media studies) Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974, religion) Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920 (1978, social studies) By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (1985, social studies) When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992, religion) Fallout: A Historian Reflects on America's Half-Century Encounter with Nuclear Weapons (1998, social studies)
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