# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sean-wilentz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:47.811Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sean-wilentz"
name: "Sean Wilentz"
slug: "sean-wilentz"
description: "Robert Sean Wilentz is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social, civic, and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written several award-winning books and articles, including The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History."
tagline: "American historian (born 1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sean_Wilentz_1272006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1951-02-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             2.376058041112455
  historical:           5.140358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/seanwilentz"
    handle:    "seanwilentz"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.seanwilentz.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Sean Wilentz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "شون ويلنتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Wilentz"
    title: "Sean Wilentz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/481a350f-6e77-49bd-8d5d-3407898f1297"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
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  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sean_Wilentz"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sean_Wilentz"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1409298"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump