Peter Charles Hoffer

Peter Charles Hoffer (b. 1944 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Queens, New York. He is a graduate of Martin Van Buren High School) is an American historian.

He has taught at the Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, Brooklyn College, and is currently distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia.

Educated at the University of Rochester, (AB 1965) and then Harvard University, (Ph.D 1970), he was a student of Bernard Bailyn.

He is the author of many books, including Murdering Mothers: Infanticide in England and America, 1558-1803 (New York University Press, 1981), with N.E.H. Hull, "Revolution and Regeneration" (Georgia, 1983), "Impeachment in America" (Yale University Press, 1984), with N.E.H. Hull, "The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America" (UNC Press, 1990), "Law and People in Early America" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, 1998), The Devil's Disciples (Johns Hopkins, 1996), "The Salem Witchcraft Trials" (University Press of Kansas, 1997), "Roe v. Wade," with N.E.H. Hull (Kansas, 2000), "Sensory Worlds of Early America" (Johns Hopkins, 2003), "The Great New York Conspiracy of 1741 (Kansas, 2003), "Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in American History" (PublicAffairs, 2004), "Seven Fires: the Urban Infernos that Reshaped America" (PublicaAffairs, 2006), and "The Supreme Court: An Essential History" (Kansas, 2007), with N.E.H. Hull and Williamjames Hoffer. He is the husband of historian and law professor N.E.H. Hull (married in 1970) and the father of historian Williamjames Hoffer and urban planner and downtown redevelopment consultant Louis Hoffer.