Edward S. Shapiro (born 1938) is a historian of American history and American Jewish history. He received his BA at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

and his PhD at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

. His doctoral dissertation was ''The American Distributists and the New Deal''. Most of Shapiro's career was spent as professor of American history at

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a Private university, private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the ...

. He is the father of

Marc B. Shapiro Marc B. Shapiro (Hebrew: מלך שפירא, born 1966) is a professor and the author of various books and articles on Jewish history, philosophy, theology, and rabbinic literature. Education and career Shapiro received his BA at Brandeis Unive ...

. Shapiro has been a resident of

West Orange, New Jersey West Orange is a suburban township in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 48,843, an increase of 2,636 (+5.7%) from the 46,207 counted in the 2010 Census.

, since 1969.Wilson, Judy
"Crown Heights riot — fact, fiction, and plenty of blame"
, ''

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'', June 8, 2006. Accessed June 20, 2018. "Edward S. Shapiro is too skilled a historian to believe that there is one truth, but he is committed to exploring the varying narratives, examining the language of each, and skewering the biases in ''Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot'' (University Press of New England), the first and only book on the first and only anti-Jewish riot in American history.... Although he has lived in West Orange since 1969, where he and his wife, Daryl, belong to Congregation Ohr Torah and Congregation Ahawas Achim B'nai Jacob and David, cities fascinate him."

Books, articles, lectures

*''Clio From the Right: Essays of a Conservative Historian'', University Press of America, 1983 *''A Time for Healing, American Jewry since World War II '', Johns Hopkins Press, 1992 (There are 748 copies in WorldCat librariesWorldCat author listing
/ref>) *''Letters of Sidney Hook" Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War'', M.E. Sharpe, 1995 *''We Are Many: Reflections on American Jewish History and Identity'', Syracuse University Press, 2005 *''Crown Heights: Blacks, Jews, and the 1991 Brooklyn Riot'', Brandeis University Press, 2006 (There are 343 copies in WorldCat libraries) *''Yiddish in America : Essays on Yiddish Culture in the Golden Land'', University of Scranton Press, 2008 *''A Unique People in a Unique Land: Essays on American Jewish History'', Academic Studies Press, 2022
Shapiro articles and reviewsShapiro book reviews for Jewish Book Council

Shapiro speaking at Sidney Hook Symposium

References

1938 births Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Harvard University alumni Georgetown University alumni Seton Hall University faculty People from West Orange, New Jersey Historians from New Jersey American male non-fiction writers {{US-historian-stub