Henry L. Snyder (November 3, 1929 – February 29, 2016) was professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside, and the former director of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research.
Snyder was a past president of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and served upon the boards of directors of several scholarly organizations.
For more than a decade he served on the consulting faculty and taught at the U S Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
He received one of the 2007 National Humanities Medals [3] His award cited him "for visionary leadership in bridging the worlds of scholarship and technology.
His direction of massive projects in the digital humanities has opened new frontiers in cataloguing and preserving ideas and documents for future generations.