Edward Pessen (1920–1992) was an American historian.

Life

Edeard Pessen was born to a working-class Jewish immigrant family in

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. After army service Pessen completed undergraduate education (in 1947) and gained a PhD (in 1954) from

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. He taught at several universities, ending as professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York. He was a founder of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and was the society's president in 1985–6.

Works

* ''The social philosophies of early American leaders of labor'', 1954 * ''Most uncommon Jacksonians: the radical leaders of the early labor movement'', 1967 * ''New perspectives on Jacksonian parties and politics'', 1969 * ''Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics'', 1969 * ''Riches, class, and power before the Civil War'', 1973 * ''Three centuries of social mobility in America'', 1974 * ''Jacksonian panorama'', 1976 * ''The Many-faceted Jacksonian era: new interpretations'', 1977 * ''The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents'', 1984

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pessen, Edward 1920 births 1992 deaths CUNY Graduate Center faculty 20th-century American historians Columbia University alumni United States Army personnel of World War II