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Michael Gedaliah Kammen (October 25 1936 – November 29 2013) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor of American cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell University. At the time of his death he held the title Newton C. Farr professor emeritus of American history and culture.Kammen was born in 1936 in Rochester New York grew up in the Washington DC area and was educated at the George Washington University and Harvard University where he received his Ph.D.