Peter Cozzens


 * Not to be confused with Peter Cozens

Peter Cozzens is an American historian and retired Foreign Service Officer. He has written and/or edited over seventeen books on the Civil War and the Indian Campaigns.

Early life
Peter Cozzens grew up in Wheaton, Illinois.

Personal life
He lives with his wife Antonia Feldman in Kensington, Maryland.

The Earth Is Weeping
The Earth Is Weeping chronicles the Indian Wars for the American West in their totality. Cozzens begins his narrative with the 1866 resistance movement led by Red Cloud.

Smithsonian.com named it one of the top ten history books of 2016. Amazon highlighted it as one of the best books of 2016 in the history category.

It is the recipient of the 2017 Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History awarded for the best book published on the subject in the English language in 2017.

Awards
He received the State Department Superior Honor Award in 1997. In 2002, he received The William R. Rivkin Award from the American Foreign Service Association given one Foreign Service Officer annually for extraordinary accomplishment involving initiative, integrity, intellectual courage and constructive dissent.” He also received an Alumni Achievement Award from his alma mater Knox College. Cozzens serves on the Advisory Council of the Lincoln Prize.