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Peter Horne earned his B.A. in history at Queens College in 1969, an eventful year on campus. Since then he has been a police officer in Compton, CA, received his Ph.D. from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and taught at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. He has since retired as Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice from Mercer County (NJ) Community College. He has written two editions of his historical and comparative book, Women in Law Enforcement<\/em>, based on his Master\u2019s thesis from California State University, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|||||on|||” header_2_font_size=”30px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n You can\u00a0donate\u00a0to the history department<\/a> right here on our website. If you would like to discuss a possible\u00a0donation\u00a0with the Chair<\/a>, please contact Julia Sneeringer at julia.sneeringer@qc.cuny.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 718-997-5350. \u00a0We appreciate your generosity and support!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|||||on|||” header_2_font_size=”30px” border_width_bottom=”1px” border_color_bottom=”#E71939″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Over the years,\u00a0many Queens College graduates have gone on to careers as historians.\u00a0They include some of the most prominent scholars of the post-World War II era.<\/p>\n Many were much like Queens College students today: children of immigrants, from working-class families, the first members of their families to attend college.\u00a0Their record of achievement is extraordinary.<\/p>\n The following list, compiled by Professor Joshua Freeman, is a work in progress. We welcome additional names of Queens College alumni historians.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ELLIOT BARKAN” open=”on” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” toggle_level=”h5″]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus of history and ethnic studies at California State University, San Bernardino, received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. His publications include\u00a0From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952<\/em>;\u00a0And Still They Come: Immigrants and American Society, 1920-1990s<\/em>; and\u00a0Asian and Pacific Islander Migration to the United States<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”RUDOLPH M. BELL” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Distinguished professor of history at Rutgers University. After graduating from Queens College in 1963, he received his Ph.D. in 1969 from the CUNY Graduate Center. His publications include\u00a0The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint<\/em>, with Cristina Mazzoni;\u00a0How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0Holy Anorexia<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”BARTON J. BERNSTEIN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n One of the leading historians of the Truman Administration and the early Cold War and a pioneer in New Left historiography. After graduating from Queens College in 1957, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Since 1965 he has been at Stanford University, where he is now professor emeritus. His publications included the influential essay \u201cThe New Deal: The Conservative Achievements of Liberal Reform\u201d;\u00a0Towards a New Past:\u00a0Dissenting Essays in American History\u00a0<\/em>(editor); and\u00a0Politics and Policies of the Truman Administration<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”JANE PACHT BRICKMAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor of history at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.\u00a0\u00a0After receiving a B.A. and M.A. in history from Queens College she received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. From 1994 until 2011, she served as dean of the department of humanities at the Academy. She has published articles and reviews in\u00a0Naval Institute Proceedings<\/em>;\u00a0American Neptune<\/em>;\u00a0Science<\/em>;\u00a0Women’s Studies Encyclopedia<\/em>;\u00a0Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences<\/em>; and\u00a0Journal of Public Health Policy<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”BERENICE CARROLL” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emerita of political science at Purdue University, where she was instrumental in establishing the women\u2019s studies program.\u00a0\u00a0She received her Ph.D. in History from Brown University.\u00a0Her publications include\u00a0Design for Total War, Arms, and Economics in the Third Reich<\/em>;\u00a0Liberating Women’s History: Theoretical and Critical Essays<\/a><\/em>;\u00a0and, as co-editor,\u00a0The Political and Social Thought of Women: An Anthology<\/em>. She served as president of the National Women\u2019s Studies Association and on the editorial board of the National Women\u2019s Studies Association Journal.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”PETER N. CARROLL” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Taught U.S. history at the University of Illinois, University of Minnesota, and currently teaches at Stanford University.\u00a0\u00a0He is the author and editor of seventeen books, including\u00a0The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War<\/em>;\u00a0The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil War.<\/em>\u00a0He is chair of the Board of Governors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) and co-curator of two museum exhibitions:\u00a0Shouts From the Wall: Posters of the Spanish Civil War (with Cary Nelson) and They Still Draw Pictures: Children\u2019s Art in Wartime From the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo (with Anthony L. Geist). He is the author of a poetry volume,\u00a0Riverborne: A Mississippi Requiem.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”RONALD L. FEINMAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his B.A. and M.A. from Queens College and his Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center.\u00a0\u00a0He teaches at Broward Community College and Florida Atlantic University. His publications include\u00a0Twilight of Progressivism: The Western Republican Senators<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Deal<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”RICHARD GREENWALD” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College.\u00a0\u00a0He was previously executive dean of the Brooklyn campus of St. Joseph’s College. His most recent book is\u00a0Labor Rising: The Past and Future of American Workers.<\/em>\u00a0His other publications include\u00a0The Triangle Fire, the Protocols of Peace and Industrial Democracy in Progressive Era New York<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Sweatshop USA: The American Sweatshop in Historical and Global Perspective<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0He is the editor of\u00a0Exploring America’s Past: A Reader in Social, Political and Cultural History, 1865\u2013Present<\/em>. His current book projects include\u00a0The Death of 9\u20135: Permanent Freelancers, Empty Offices and the New Way America Works<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Woven Together for Social Justice: The History of the American Needle Trades Union.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”HERBERT G. GUTMAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n One of the most influential U.S. historians of the post-World War II era.\u00a0\u00a0He taught a generation of historians to put working people at the center of the nation’s historical narrative, and to ask wide-ranging questions about how workers (including slaves) lived their lives and shaped American society and culture. Born in New York City, he attended John Adams High School and graduated from Queens College. He received a M.A. in history from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.\u00a0\u00a0His teaching career took him to Fairleigh Dickinson University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Stanford University, University of Rochester, and The City College of New York. In 1975, he joined the faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he was distinguished professor until his death in 1985.\u00a0\u00a0His path-breaking essays on working-class history were collected in\u00a0Work, Culture, and Society in Industrializing America: Essays in American Working-Class and Social History<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class<\/em>. He wrote two books about slavery,\u00a0Slavery and the Numbers Game<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom 1750-1925<\/em>. In 1981, he co-founded (with Steve Brier) the American Social History Project, which has produced numerous books (including\u00a0Who Built America?<\/em>), videos, websites,\u00a0and educational programs disseminating the history of working Americans to students, labor activists, and the general public.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”JUDITH MARA GUTMAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Prominent independent scholar and author, she received a master\u2019s degree from the Bank Street School of Education after graduating from Queens College in 1949.\u00a0\u00a0Her books include\u00a0The Colonial Venture: An Autobiography of the American Colonies from Their Beginnings to 1763<\/em>;\u00a0Lewis W. Hine and the American Social Conscience<\/em>;\u00a0The Making of American Society<\/em>\u00a0(co-authored with Edwin Rozwenc); and\u00a0Through Indian \u00a0Eyes<\/em>, a history of photography in India. She has taught at Hunter College and New School University and curated a number of major photographic exhibitions.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”LILIAN (BOMBACH) HANDLIN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.\u00a0\u00a0Her books include\u00a0George Bancroft, The Intellectual as Democrat<\/em>\u00a0and, with Oscar Handlin,\u00a0Abraham Lincoln and the Union<\/em>;\u00a0From the Outer World<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0A Restless People: Americans in Rebellion, 1770-1787<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”LAWRENCE KAPLAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Emeritus professor of history, City College of New York.\u00a0\u00a0His books include\u00a0Politics and Religion during the English Revolution: the Scots and the Long Parliament, 1643-1645<\/em>;\u00a0Oliver Cromwell<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0Between Ocean and City: The Transformation of Rockaway, New York<\/em>\u00a0(with Carol P. Kaplan).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”DAVID M. KATZMAN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus of American studies, University of Kansas and co-editor of American Studies. He received his B.A. from Queens College in 1963 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1969. His books include\u00a0Before the Ghetto: Black Detroit in the Nineteenth Century<\/em>;\u00a0Seven Days a Week:\u00a0Women and Domestic Service in Industrializing America<\/em>; and (as co-author) one of the leading college history textbooks,\u00a0A\u00a0People & A Nation: A History of the United States<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”STUART KNEE” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor of history at College of Charleston, received his Ph.D. from NYU in 1974. His publications include\u00a0The Concept of Zionist Dissent in the American Mind 1917-1941<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”MYLES MCDONNELL” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his Ph.D., in Ancient History from Columbia University.\u00a0\u00a0He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, NYU, Columbia University, and Baruch College. He is the author of\u00a0Roman Manliness: Virtus and the Roman Republic<\/em>\u00a0and has been the director of the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome since 2004. He recalls that when he started as a freshman at Queens College in 1966 that women couldn’t wear pants, but by the time he left, there were nudists sitting in trees.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”EUGENE MOEHRING” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor of history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.\u00a0\u00a0He received his B.A. (1968) and M.A. (1970) in history from Queens College and his Ph.D. (1976) from the CUNY Graduate Center.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published five books:\u00a0Public Works and the Patterns of Urban Real Estate Growth in Manhattan, 1835-1894<\/em>;\u00a0Resort City in the Sunbelt: Las Vegas, 1930-2000<\/em>;\u00a0Urbanism and Empire in the Far West, 1840-1890<\/em>;\u00a0A Centennial History of Las Vegas<\/em>\u00a0(with Michael Green); and\u00a0The University of Nevada, Las Vegas: A History.<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”HOWARD NENNER” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his L.L.B. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0\u00a0He practiced law in New York before entering academia.\u00a0\u00a0He is Roe\/Straut professor emeritus in the humanities (history) at Smith College, where he taught from 1968 to 2006.\u00a0\u00a0His publications include\u00a0The Right to be King:\u00a0the Succession to the Crown of England, 1603-1714<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0By Colour of Law: Legal Culture and Constitutional Politics in England, 1660-8<\/em>9.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ARMAND I. PATRUCCO” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.\u00a0\u00a0He was professor of history at Rhode Island College, where he taught for 34 years, and author of\u00a0The Critics of the Italian Parliamentary System, 1860-1915<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0At Rhode Island College he led one of the top national college chess clubs and convinced the college to be the first in the nation to offer chess scholarships.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”RONALD W. PRUESSEN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Deputy director of Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto.\u00a0 Formerly chair of the Department of History, his early work focused on the Cold War, including\u00a0John Foster Dulles: To the Threshold, 1888-1952.<\/em>\u00a0Current work is concentrated on a study of the early stages of U.S. involvement in Vietnam and an edited collection of articles and conference papers dealing with John Foster Dulles\u2019s years as U.S. Secretary of States.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”NORMAN RAVITCH” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus at University of California, Riverside.\u00a0\u00a0His books include\u00a0Sword and Mitre: Government and Episcopate in France and England in the Age of Aristocracy<\/em>;\u00a0Christian Man<\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0The Catholic Church and the French Nation, 1685-1985<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”IRWIN SCHEINER” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus, University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0\u00a0Ph.D., University of Michigan. Publications include\u00a0Christian Converts and Social Protest in Meiji Japan<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Japanese Thought in the Tokugawa Period: Methods and Metaphors<\/em>\u00a0(edited with Tetsuo Najita).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”HARVARD SITKOFF” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his B.A. from Queens College in 1961 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. One of the outstanding historians of civil rights and African American history, he taught for many years at the University of New Hampshire.\u00a0\u00a0His numerous books include \u00a0A History of Our Time<\/em>;\u00a0A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade<\/a><\/em>;\u00a0King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop<\/a><\/em>;\u00a0and\u00a0The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1992<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”SHELDON M. STERN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1970. From 1977 through 1999 was a historian at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, where he developed a special interest in teacher preparation and secondary-school history education. In 1992, he launched the American History Project for High School Students, a program to introduce students to the complexity of history and historical evidence. He has worked extensively with educational advocacy organizations including Core Knowledge, K12, and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He is the author of\u00a0Averting the Final Failure: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Week the World Stood Still: Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”WILLIAM STUECK” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus and distinguished research professor at the University of Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0After completing his M.A. at Queens College he received a Ph.D. in History at Brown University.\u00a0\u00a0He is one of the leading historians of the Korean War and U.S-Korean relations. His publications include\u00a0Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Korean War: An International History<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ROSALYN TERBORG-PENN” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Professor emeritus at Morgan State University, received her Ph.D. from Howard University. At Queens College she was a charter member of the campus NAACP chapter and helped lead a boycott of classes to protest a ban on allowing Malcolm X to speak. Her publications include\u00a0African-American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920<\/em>;\u00a0The Afro-American Woman: Struggles and Images<\/em>\u00a0(edited with Sharon Harley); and\u00a0The Columbia Guide to African American History since 1939<\/em>\u00a0(edited with Robert L. Harris).<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ALBION M. URDANK” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Tenured associate professor of modern British and European history at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1983.\u00a0\u00a0His publications include Religion and Society in a Cotswold Vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, 1780 to 1865.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”CARL D. WEINER” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n William H. Laird professor of history and the liberal arts, emeritus, at Carleton College, where he taught history from 1964 to 2004, after completing his M.A. at Columbia University and doing additional graduate work at the University of Wisconsin.\u00a0\u00a0He is currently working on The Esternay Project and Archive, an online archive of nineteenth-century letters, around the Poirrier family and their notarial clientele in the rural town of Esternay, France.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ALFRED F. YOUNG” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n One of the leading historians of the era of the American revolution, transforming its study though close attention to the lives and political activities of artisans and other ordinary Americans. His concern with less known and less celebrated historical actors was nurtured at Queens College (where he received his B.A. in 1946) by economic historian Vera Shlakman and historian Henry David. After receiving his M.A. at Columbia University and Ph.D. at Northwestern University, he taught for many years at Northern Illinois University. His publications include\u00a0The Democratic-Republicans of New York: The Origins, 1763\u20131797<\/em>; the highly influential and widely reprinted essay “George Roberts Twelves Hewes (1742\u20131840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution”;\u00a0Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier<\/em>;\u00a0The Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution<\/em>; and\u00a0Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_accordion_item][et_pb_accordion_item title=”ROBERT ZALLER” open_toggle_text_color=”#E71939″ _builder_version=”4.24.0″ _module_preset=”default” body_font_size=”16px” global_colors_info=”{}” open=”off”]<\/p>\n Distinguished university professor at Drexel University. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Washington University and taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Miami, Coral Gables; and since 1987, at Drexel. 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