Justin Harvey Smith

Justin Harvey Smith (1857–1930) was an American historian. Born in New Hampshire and educated at Dartmouth, he worked for many years in publishing in Boston before returning to Dartmouth as professor of modern history from 1899 to 1908, after which he devoted himself to research. His books on the Revolutionary period, Arnold's March from Cambridge to Quebec and Our Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony, were followed by The Annexation of Texas (1911) and his major work, The War with Mexico (1919), written after years in Mexican and American archives and awarded the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1920.