Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian and writer whose work focuses on the lives of slaves and freedmen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He earned a BA in American Studies from Amherst College in 1966 and a PhD in history from Harvard University. He is best known for his oral history research and field studies, most notably 'All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw' (1974), which won the National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs in 1976.[1,3,4,5]
