David M. Oshinsky (born 1944) is an American historian. He is the director of the Division of Medical Humanities at
NYU School of Medicine
NYU Grossman School of Medicine is a medical school of New York University, a private research university in New York City. It was founded in 1841 and is one of two medical schools of the university, with the other being the Long Island School o ...
and a professor in the Department of History at
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
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Background
Oshinsky graduated from
Cornell
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
in 1965 and obtained his PhD from
Brandeis University
, mottoeng = "Truth even unto its innermost parts"
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, type = Private research university
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, president = Ronald D. Liebowitz
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in 1971. He won the annual
Pulitzer Prize in History
The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. It has been presented since 1917 for a distinguished book about the history ...
for his 2005 book, ''
Polio: An American Story''.
[ Oshinsky’s most recent book, ''Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America’s Most Storied Hospital'', was published in 2016.] His other books include the D.B. Hardeman Prize-winning '' A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy'', and the Robert Kennedy Prize-winning ''"Worse Than Slavery": Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice''. His articles and reviews appear regularly in ''The New York Times
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'', ''The Washington Post
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'', and ''The Chronicle of Higher Education
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''.[ He previously held the Jack S. Blanton chair in history at the ]University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...
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See also
*Jim Crow laws
The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas of the United States were affected by formal and informal policies of segregation as well, but many states outside the Sout ...
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David M. Oshinsky
Professor Emeritus, UT–Austin
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1944 births
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Pulitzer Prize for History winners
Cornell University alumni
Brandeis University alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
Jewish American historians
Date of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male non-fiction writers