Richard Hofstadter Competition for Historical Writing
City Honors School at Fosdick-Masten Park
Richard Hofstadter graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1933, earned his B.A. from the University at Buffalo and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1942. Four years later, Dr. Hofstadter began his academic career at Columbia where he continued to teach until his untimely death in 1970. Hofstadter also won two Pulitzer Prizes. Hofstadter won his first Pulitzer in Historical Writing for The Age of Reform in 1956 and his second for General Non-Fiction for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life in 1964.
City Honors School now occupies the Fosdick-Masten Park building. In 2003 The City Honors School at Fosdick Masten Park held the inaugural Richard Hofstadter Competition for Historical Writing. The Competition is sponsored by the Hofstadter Estate, City Honors Foundation and the CHS Parent-Teacher-Student-Community Organization.
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Previous winners of the RHCHW
Previous speakers in the Richard Hofstadter Lecture Series
Recepients of the CHS@FMP Richard Hofstadter Mentor Award
Richard Hofstadter as a student at Fosdick-Mastern Park High School
