Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1914, Oct. 1 | Born, Atlanta, Ga. |
| 1934 | A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1934-1937 | Read law at the Inner Temple, London, England |
| 1936 | B.A., Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, England |
| 1937 | B.C.L., Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, England Passed English bar examinations and became a barrister-at-law |
| 1938-1942 | Tutor, history and literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1939-1942 | Lecturer, American legal history, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1940 | J.S.D., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1941 | Married Ruth Carolyn Frankel Published The Mysterious Science of the Law. Cambridge: Harvard University Press |
| 1942 | Admitted to the Massachusetts bar Senior attorney, Lend-Lease Administration, Washington, D.C. |
| 1942-1944 | Assistant professor of history, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. |
| 1943 | Editor, Delaware Cases, 1792-1830. St. Paul: West Publishing Co. |
| 1944-1949 | Assistant professor of history, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1948 | Published The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Holt |
| 1949-1956 | Associate professor of history, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1950-1951 | Fulbright lecturer, University of Rome, Rome, Italy |
| 1953 | Published The Genius of American Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press |
| 1956-1964 | Professor of history, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1957 | Visiting professor of American history, University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan Lecturer, Korea |
| 1958 | Published The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Random House; awarded Bancroft Prize, 1959 |
| 1959-1960 | Lecturer for the State Department in Turkey, Iran, Nepal, India, and Ceylon |
| 1960 | Published America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American Thought. Cleveland: World Publishing Co. |
| 1961-1962 | First incumbent, chair of American history, University of Paris, Paris, France |
| 1962 | Published The Image, or What Happened to the American Dream. New York: Atheneum; republished in 1964 as The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. New York: Harper and Row |
| 1964-1965 | Pitt professor of American history and institutions, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England |
| 1964-1969 | Preston and Sterling Morton distinguished service professor of history, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. |
| 1965 | Published The Americans: The National Experience. New York: Random House; awarded Francis Parkman Prize, 1966 |
| 1966 | Editor, An American Primer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press |
| 1968 | Published The Landmark History of the American People: From Plymouth to Appomattox. New York: Random House |
| 1969 | Published The Decline of Radicalism: Reflections of America Today. New York: Random House |
| 1969-1973 | Director, National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| 1970 | Published The Landmark History of the American People: From Appomattox to the Moon. New York: Random House Published The Sociology of the Absurd: Or, the Application of Professor X. New York: Simon & Schuster |
| 1972 | Editor, American Civilization. London: Thames and Hudson |
| 1973 | Published The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Random House; awarded Pulitizer Prize, 1974 |
| 1973-1975 | Senior historian, National Museum of History and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| 1974 | Published Democracy and Its Discontents: Reflections on Everyday America. New York: Random House |
| 1974-1981 | Member, State Department's Indo-American Joint Subcommittee on Education and Culture |
| 1975-1987 | Librarian of Congress |
| 1976 | Published The Exploring Spirit: America and the World, Then and Now. New York: Random House |
| 1978 | Published The Republic of Technology. New York: Harper & Row |
| 1978-1984 | Member, Japan-United States Friendship Committee |
| 1981 | Published with Brooks M. Kelley and Ruth Frankel Boorstin The History of the United States. Lexington: Ginn |
| 1981-circa 1991 | Member, board of editors, Encyclopedia Britannica |
| 1983 | Published The Discoverers. New York: Random House; awarded Watson-Davis Prize for History of Science and Society, 1986 |
| 1987 | Published Hidden History. New York: Harper & Row |
| 1987 | Named Librarian of Congress Emeritus |
| 1989 | Published The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-87. Washington: Library of Congress Awarded the Charles Frankel Prize of the National Endowment for the Humanities Awarded the National Book Award Medal for distinguished contribution to American letters |
| 1992 | Published The Creators. New York: Random House |
| 1994 | Published Cleopatra's Nose: Essays on the Unexpected. New York: Random House |
| 1995 | Published The Daniel J. Boorstin Reader. New York: Modern Library |
| 1998 | Published The Seekers. New York: Random House |
| 2004, Feb, 28 | Died, Washington, D.C. |