Editing Victor Davis Hanson (section)

==Early life and education==
Hanson grew up in [[Selma, California]], in the [[San Joaquin Valley]], and has worked there most of his life.<ref name=papers>{{cite web | author = Hanson, Victor Davis | editor = Heyne, Jennifer (with Thornton, Bruce S. & Chapman, Honora Howell) | date=January 25, 2013 | title = Author | format = author autobiography | work = vdh Private Papers (VictorHanson.com) | url = http://www.victorhanson.com/Author/index.html | access-date = August 8, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130125054349/http://www.victorhanson.com/Author/index.html | archive-date = January 25, 2013}} Note, Hanson married Jennifer Heyne in November 2013.{{cn|date=February 2025}} The statement that this is an author autobiography is based on its appearance at victorhanson.com, its having been edited by his spouse, and the identity, often near verbatim, of this autobiography and others associated with Hanson (faculty, author, speaking, etc.).{{better source|date=February 2025}}</ref>{{better source|date=February 2025}}

He is of Swedish and Welsh ancestry, and his father's cousin, for whom he was named, was killed in the [[Battle of Okinawa]].<ref>{{cite AV media | people = Robinson, Peter & Hanson, Victor Davis  | date = June 12, 2023  | format = audio interview and transcript | title=A Classicist Farmer: The Life and Times of Victor Davis Hanson | url=https://www.hoover.org/research/classicist-farmer-life-and-times-victor-davis-hanson | access-date = 2025-02-12}}{{better source|date=February 2025}}</ref>{{better source|date=February 2025}}

Hanson received a B.A. in classics and general Cowell College honors from the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], in 1975 and his PhD in [[classics]] from [[Stanford University]] in 1980.<ref name="papers" />{{better source|date=February 2025}}