Nicholas Anthony Salvatore (born 1943) is an American

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 stu ...

who serves as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at

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Biography

Salvatore was born in 1943 in the

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. He graduated from

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admi ...

in 1968, and graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, with an MA and PhD, where he studied with

Leon F. Litwack Leon Frank Litwack (December 2, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American historian whose scholarship focused on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitz ...

. He has taught American history at the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private, Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Boston. Founded in 1843, Holy Cross is the oldest Catholic college in New England and one of the oldest ...

and at

. He has two daughters, Gabriella and Nora, and two grandsons, Joseph and Oscar. He and his wife, Ann Sullivan, live in

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Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...

fellowships * Senior Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University. *

Bancroft Prize The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948, with a bequest from Frederic Bancroft, in his memory and that of his brother, ...

, for ''Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist'' *

John H. Dunning Prize The John H. Dunning Prize is a biennial book prize awarded by the American Historical Association for the best book in history related to the United States. The prize was established in 1929, and is regarded as one of the most prestigious national h ...

, for ''Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist'' * New England History Association's Outstanding Book Prize, for ''We All Got History''

Works

* : second edition: 2007 (); for a presentation of the second ed. by Salvatore himself, see: * *
"Biography and Social History : an Intimate Relationship", ''Labour History", November 2008

Edited

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References

External links

"Historian's website"

1943 births 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American Christian writers American male non-fiction writers Bancroft Prize winners Christian scholars Christians from New York (state) College of the Holy Cross faculty Cornell University faculty Historians from New York (state) Historians of socialism Hunter College alumni Labor historians Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni Writers from Brooklyn Writers from Ithaca, New York {{US-historian-stub