Frederic Logan Paxson (1877-1948) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American historian. He had also been a President of the Organization of American Historians. He had degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. From 1932 to 1947 he taught at the University of California. As a historian he was considered an authority on the American West. His 1925 Pulitzer Prize was for History of the American Frontier (1924). His works include: The Independence of the South American Republics (1903), Last American Frontier (1910), The Civil War (1911), The New Nation (1915) and Recent History of the United States (1921).