John L. Brooke (born 1953)^[1] is an American historian.

Life

Brooke graduated from Cornell University in 1975, and from the University of Pennsylvania, with an M.A. and Ph.D. in 1982. He taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Amherst College, and Tufts University. He most recently teaches at Ohio State University.^[2]

Awards

• 1991 Merle Curti Award for Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians^[3]
• National Historical Society Book Prize
• 1995 Bancroft Prize
• 1997 Guggenheim Fellow^[4]
• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship

Works

• The Heart of the Commonwealth: Society and Political Culture in Worcester County Massachusetts, 1713-1861. Cambridge University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-521-67339-6. (2nd edition 2005)
• The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844. Cambridge University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-521-56564-6.
• Climate Change and the Course of Global History: A Rough Journey. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-0-521-69218-2.
• There Is A North. Massachusetts Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1-62534-447-2.