Joshua Brown is an American social
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...
, and Executive Director, of the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning, at
City University of New York.
He graduated from
City College of New York ''magna cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, from
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
with an M.A. in American History in 1976, and a Master of Philosophy in American History in 1978, and with a Ph.D. in 1993.
Awards
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2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
''History from South Africa: alternative visions and practices'' Editor Joshua Brown, Temple University Press, 1991,
*''Who Built America? Volume 1: To 1877; Working People and the Nation's History'', Authors Christopher Clark, American Social History Project, Nancy Hewitt, Joshua Brown, David Jaffee, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007,
''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction'' Authors Eric Foner, Joshua Brown, Random House, Inc., 2006,
''Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America'' University of California Press, 2006,
References
External links
''History News Network''
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City University of New York faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
City College of New York alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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