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October 16, 1869
Claude H. Van Tyne, American historian and author (died 1930)
Claude H. Van Tyne
Claude Halstead Van Tyne was an American historian. He was a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in 1902. He taught history at the University of Michigan from 1903 to 1930 and wrote several books on the American Revolution. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The War of Independence in 1930.