Robert S. McElvaine

 

                      Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters

                                    Chair, Department of History

                                               Millsaps College

 

 

Department of History                                                                                  201 Concord Drive

Millsaps College                                                                              Clinton, Mississippi  39056

Jackson, Mississippi  39210                                                                                  601/924-1598

601/974-1291

FAX: 601-974-1324

e-mail: mcelvrs@millsaps.edu                                   Web: http://home.millsaps.edu/mcelvrs/

 http://evesseed.net

 

EDUCATION:

 

B.A.:   Rutgers University (New Brunswick), 1968.

 

M.A.:   SUNY-Binghamton, 1971.

 

Ph.D.:  SUNY-Binghamton, 1974.

 

Post-Doctoral Study:           University of California at Berkeley, 1978.

Brown University, 1980-1981.

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

  Books

 

Grand Theft, Jesus - ChristianityLite, The "Religion" that Has Kidnapped Jesus

                   (New York: Crown, forthcoming, March 2008).

          Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (editor-in-chief) (New York: Macmillan

                 Reference USA, 2004).

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002).

 

Eve’s Seed: Biology, the Sexes and the Course of History (New York:

McGraw-Hill, 2001); Chinese edition, Beijing: Horizon, 2004).

 

The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents (New York: Oxford

       University Press, 2000).

 

What's Left?—A New Democratic Vision for America (Holbrook, Mass.:

Adams Publishing, 1996).

 

Mario Cuomo: A Biography (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988).

 

The End of the Conservative Era: Liberalism After Reagan (New York:

Arbor House, 1987).

 

The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (New York: Times Books, 1984;

2nd edition, 1993).

 

Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the "Forgotten Man"

(Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1983).

 

  Portions of Books, etc.

 

          “Causes of the Great Depression,” “Impact of the Great Depression on Gender Roles and

Sexual Relations,” “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang,” “Little Caesar,” Impact of the Great Depression on Men,” “Remember My Forgotten Man,” “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “Effects of the Great Depression on Values,” “The Wizard of Oz,” in Robert S. McElvaine, ed., Encyclopedia of the Great Depression (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004).

 

“The Great Depression,” The New Book of Knowledge (Danbury, Conn.

 Scholastic/Grolier, 2002).

 

“Franklin D. Roosevelt,” “Harry Hopkins,” and “Bonus Army,” in The Oxford

Companion to United States History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

 

“One Depression, Two Solutions, 1930-1939,” Essay in Richard Stolley, ed.,  Life: Our

        Century in Pictures (Boston: Little Brown, 1999).

 

“They Didn’t March to Free the Slaves,” in Roy L. Brooks, ed., When Sorry Isn’t

Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparations for Human

Injustice (New York: NYU Press, 1999).

 

“The Great Depression,” Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, 1997.

 

“Mario Cuomo,” in The Reader's Companion to American History, edited by

Eric Foner and John A. Garraty (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).

 

“New Deal Cultural Programs and the South,” in the Encyclopedia of Southern

Culture, edited by Charles R. Wilson and William Ferris. (Chapel Hill:  University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

 

Introduction to a new edition of WPA Federal Writers' Project,

Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State (Jackson:  University Press of Mississippi, 1988).

 

“Franklin D. Roosevelt,” 20,000 word biographical essay for a three-volume work,

The American Presidents, edited by Frank N. Magill (Pasadena, Calif:  Salem Press, 1986).

 

“Claude Ramsay, Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi,

1959-1966,” in Gary Fink, Leslie Hough and Merl Reed, eds., Southern Workers and Their Unions, 1880-1972 (Westport, Conn.:  Greenwood Press, 1981).

 


 

  Articles and Op Ed Pieces (Partial List):

 

“An Obama Presidency for Lincoln’s Two-Hundredth Birthday,” History News Network,

September 25, 2006.

Jesusless: The Church of Conservatism,” Sightings, June 30, 2006.

“Bush Team Doin’ a Heck of a Job,” Clarion-Ledger, April 26, 2006.

“Remember When?” History News Network, March 27, 2006.

“Mr. Bush—Brought to the Bar of Poetic Justice,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 15, 2006.

“‘Morning’ Light Exposes Bush Lies about Iraq,” Clarion-Ledger, November 17, 2005.

“FEMA Mess Didn’t Miss Mississippi,” Baltimore Sun, October 12, 2005.

“O.J., W., ‘Us,’ and ‘Them,’—and Truth,” Chicago Tribune, October 2, 2005.

“Weather of Mass Destruction,” Sightings, September 29, 2005.

 “Beneficiary of War in Iraq will Really Be Iran,” Clarion-Ledger, August 11, 2005.

“What If He’s a Christian Man?” Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2005.

“Iran Will Emerge as Clear Victor in U.S. War in Iraq,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 11, 2005.

“Christianity Doesn’t Include a Free Pass to Sin,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 4, 2005.

“Are We at a Turning Point in History?” History News Network, June 27, 2005.

“What Goes Around Comes Around: Mississippi, 1964—State-Sponsored Terrorism, San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, 2005.

“Bush Helping Democrats Find Their Soul,” Clarion-Ledger, March 1, 2005.

“Woodrow Wilson’s Burden, Bush’s—And Ours,” History News Network, February 14, 2005.

“Once Again Republicans Are Running Against the Sixties,” History News Network,  November 1, 2004.

“Republicans Aren’t Even Good for the Rich,” History News Network,  November 1, 2004.

“Must We Decide which Side God Favors to Vote?” Clarion-Ledger op-ed page,  October 28, 2004.

“Does Bush Think He’s Channeling God?” History News Network, October 25, 2004.

“It’s the Illusions About Iraq, Stupid,” History News Network, October 23, 2004.

“The Making of the Marlboro Man, 2004,” History News Network, October 21, 2004.

“Can Bush Out-Hoover Hoover,” History News Service, October 18, 2004.

“Red State, Blue State,” Washington Post “Outlook,” October 10, 2004.

“Bush ‘Imposter’ when it comes to Conservatism,” Clarion-Ledger, October 7, 2004.

“Bush: Gaining on Buchanan for Last Place,” History News Service, September 20, 2004.

“‘Girlie Men” and the Worldview that has Misshaped History,” Op Ed News, September 9, 2004.

“We’re Being Fooled by Bush’s ‘Reality,’” Clarion-Ledger op ed page, September 3, 2004.

“Bush Evading Hard Issues by Odd Positions,” Clarion-Ledger op ed page, July 16, 2004.

“Bush Backers Fear 'Truth' in '9/11' Movie,” Clarion-Ledger op ed page, July 1, 2004.

“Historians v. George W. Bush,” History News Network, May 17, 2004.

“‘C-L’ Coverage of Kerry Leaves Issues Ignored,” Clarion-Ledger op ed page, March 11, 2004.

“‘Dean-aholics’ Must See Iowa as Turning Point,” Clarion-Ledger op ed page, January 23, 2004.

A Big Mississippi Thank Y’all,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

August 15, 2003.

 

“The Relevance of Biohistory,” The Chronicle Review Chronicle of

Higher Education), October 18, 2002.

 

“A Cloud of Sexism Over the Church,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

March 29, 2002.

 

“Let Eve Take Her Place at the Table,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

December 20, 2001.

 

“The Birth of the Myth that Men are Closer to God,” Washington Post AOutlook,@

November 11, 2001.

 

“A Second Black Tuesday,” The Chronicle Review (Chronicle of Higher

Education), September 28, 2001.

 

“Cloning Aside, It Still Takes Two to Tango,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

August 16, 2001.

 

“‘Hooking Up= Makes a Feminized World More Bound than Ever by Men=s Rules,”

Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, August 5, 2001.

 

“For an Old Flag, A New Rationale,” New York Times Op Ed page, April 21, 2001.

 

“Read His Lips: He’s No Wimp the Younger,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

February 21, 2001.

 

“Hell Hath No Fury Like a Man Devalued—And Women Pay the Price,” Los

Angeles Times Op Ed page, January 10, 2001.

 

“Democrats May Inherit a Windfall,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, August 27,

2000.

 

“Lynching a State=s Reputation,” Washington Post Op Ed Page, August 22, 2000.

 

“Washington=s Academy Award Nominees,” The Nation, March 23, 1998.

 

“Why Al Gore Is Such an Easy Target,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

September 17, 1997.

 


“They Didn’t March to Free the Slaves,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

July 25, 1997.

 

“When the Enemy Is ‘Them,’ Watch Out,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

May 14, 1997.

 

“Cloning: How Do We Morally Navigate the Uncharted Future?” Los Angeles

Times, March 5, 1997.

 

“Blessed Are Those Whose Charity is Not Plastic,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed

page, December 20, 1996.

 

“The Book on Genesis,” Washington Post “Outlook,” November 3, 1996.

 

“To Do or Not Do—That is the Question,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

October 21, 1996.

 

“Reclaim the High Ground of the ’60s,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

August 26, 1996.

 

“Ghosts, Goblins and Scary Politicians,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

October 30, 1995.

 

“Public Enemy No. 1: Credit Cards,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

September 12, 1995.

 

“It’s the Message, Not the Medium,” Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1995.

 

“Elders is Subscriber to Newt Age Values,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

December 12, 1994.

 

“Nattering Nabobs Are Back—This Time as Republicans,” Los Angeles Times

Op Ed page, October 17, 1994.

 

“The Day—and Night—of the Locust,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, June 22,

 1994.

 

“What Ever Happened to S-x?” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page, July 22, 1993.

 

“Yours, Mine, Ours—Taxes Cover All,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

May 2, 1993.

 


“‘Growing’ the Economy Is a Fertile Idea,” Wall Street Journal Opinion Page,

February 25, 1993.

 

“GOP ‘Values'?  Read Their Lip-Service,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

October 12, 1992.

 

“A Truce for the Abortion War,” Washington Post “Outlook,” July 5, 1992.

 

“A Gamble That Could Work for Clinton,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

April 29, 1992.

 

“It Ain’t Over Even When It’s Over,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

January 7, 1992.

 

“Feminizing Congress in One Sweep,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

December 22, 1991.

 

“Don’t Write Off Democrats Yet,” Atlanta Constitution, April 12, 1991.

 

“The Tale of Two Presidents,” Atlanta Constitution, January 20, 1991.

 

“Cuomo's Hamlet Act Must End,” Atlanta Constitution, December 2, 1990.

 

“George Bush as Teddy Roosevelt,” Atlanta Constitution, September 30, 1990.

 

“Reverberating Echoes of the Roaring ’20s,” Baltimore Sun opinion page,

December 29, 1989.

 

“‘Semibiography’: Political Biography at Mid-Career: Opportunities and

Pitfalls,  Kennesaw Review, vol. 2 (Summer 1989), pp. 55-66.

 

“Vice President Dan Reagan?”  New York Times Op Ed page, September 14,

1988.

 

“Art for Our Sake: The Democratic Vision of the WPA Posters,” Washington

Monthly, May, 1988, pp. 55-57.

 

“Think of Afghanistan as a Soviet ‘Spain,’” New York Times Op Ed page,

May 14, 1988.

 

“In ’88:  Gunning for the Early Bird,” New York Times Op Ed page,

February 7, 1988.


 

“The Kennedy Complex,” New York Times Op Ed page, September 27, 1987.

 

“Why the Debacle Shouldn’t Hearten Liberals,” New York Times Op Ed page,

December 9, 1986.

 

“Workers in Fiction: Locked Out,” New York Times Book Review,

September 1, 1985.

 

          “Our Election Day Scapegoats,” Newsweek, November 5, 1984.

 

“Political Change Among the Magnolias,” Southern Exposure, vol. 12

(September-October 1984).

 

“A Comeback for Economic Royalists,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

September 3, 1984.

 

“Liberals Go Back to the Flag,” New York Times Op Ed page, September 2,

1984.

 

“Do We Really Want an Active President?”  Washington Post opinion page,

June 17, 1984.

 

“Hart’s ‘New Ideas’ Need an Infusion of Old Ideals,” Los Angeles Times

Op Ed page, April 24, 1984.

 

“When Poor Kids Hoped a President Was Santa,” Boston Globe Op Ed page,

December 25, 1983.

 

“They Don’t Make ’Em Like the Checkers Speech Anymore,” Boston Globe

Op Ed page, September 24, 1982.

 

“Roosevelt and Reagan,” Christian Century, vol. 99 (May 12, 1982).

 

“Hit or Miss. Federalism,” New York Times Op Ed page, March 16, 1982.

 

“To Be and to Seem: Reading Presidents in the Nuclear Age,”

Christian Century, vol. 99 (March 17, 1982).

 

“America Suffers a Change in Values,” Los Angeles Times Op Ed page,

October 28, 1981.

 


“The Coolidge Model: What Better Choice?” Boston Globe Op Ed page,

June 27, 1981.

 

“Reagan’s Mellon Slices,” New York Times Op Ed page, May 21, 1981.

 

“Liberalism is Not Dead,” New York Times Op Ed page, September 20, 1980.

 

“Jimmy Carter:  Populist or Politician?” Intellect, vol. 106 (April 1978).

 

“Old Times There Are Not Forgotten:  A Personal View of the New South,”

Midwest Quarterly, vol. 19 (Spring 1978).

 

“Where Have All the Liberals Gone?”  Texas Quarterly, vol. 19 (Autumn 1976).

 

“Franklin and Jack . . . and Jimmy?”  America, vol. 135 (October 23, 1976).

 

 

BOOK & FILM REVIEWS (Partial List):

 

          “Man of the Century” (Review of Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of

                 Freedom, in Washington Post Book World, December 21, 2003.

 

          Review of Maury Klein, Rainbow’s End: The Crash of 1929, in Business

History Review, vol. 77 (Summer 2003), pp. 319-321.

 

Review of Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, in Perspectives

in Biology and Medicine, vol. 44 (Summer, 2001), pp. 452-54.

 

Review of Albert Fried, FDR and His Enemies, in The Journal of American

History, vol. 87 (December 2000), p. 1078.

 

Review of Ronald C. Tobey, Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the

Electrical Modernization of the American Home, in The American Historical Review, vol. 103 (October 1998), pp. 1342-1343.

 

Review of John Faulkner, Men Working, in Los Angeles Times Book Review,

September 1, 1996.

 

Review of Stanley Aronowitz, Roll Over Beethoven: The Return of Cultural

Strife, in The American Historical Review, vol. 99 (December 1994), pp. 1646-47.

 


Review of Andrew J. Dunbar and Dennis McBride, Building Hoover Dam: An Oral

History of the Great Depression, in The Journal of American History, vol. 81 (December 1994), pp. 1359-60.

 

Review of Catherine McNichol Stock, Main Street in Crisis: The Great

Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains, in The American Historical Review, vol. 98 (April 1993), pp. 591-92.

 

Review of William R. Brock, Welfare, Democracy, and the New Deal, in

The American Historical Review, vol. 95 (October 1990), pp. 1311-12.

 

Review of Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstele, eds., The Rise and Fall of the

New Deal Order, 1930-1980, in The Journal of American History, vol. 77 (June 1990), pp. 347-48.

 

Review of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" Revisited (film), in The Journal

of American History, vol. 76 (December 1989), pp. 1013-14.

 

Review of David E. Kyvig and Mary-Ann Blasio, New Day/New Deal:  A

Bibliography of the Great American Depression, 1929-1941, in American History: A Bibliographic Review, (Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1989),

pp. 212-14.

 

Review of Arnold R. Alanen and Joseph A. Eden, Main Street Ready-Made:

The New Deal Community of Greendale, Wisconsin, in The Journal of American History, vol. 75 (December 1988), pp. 1001-02.

 

Review of Seth Cagin and Philip Dray, We are Not Afraid: The Story of

Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney and the Campaign for Mississippi, in Journal of Mississippi History, vol. 50 (November 1988), pp. 336-39.

 

Review of Joseph P. Lash, Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal,

in Boston Globe, June 1988.

 

Review of Stephen Baskerville and Ralph Willett, eds., Nothing Else to Fear:

New Perspectives on American in the Thirties, in The Journal of American History, vol. 73 (September 1986), pp. 506-507.

 

Review of William W. Bremer, Depression Winters: New York Social Workers and

the New Deal, in The American Historical Review, vol. 90 (October 1985), pp. 1026-27.


 

 

“A President Unsuited for Politics,” review of Richard Norton Smith, An

Uncommon Man:  The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, in The New York Times Book Review, September 2, 1984.

 

 

 

PAPERS DELIVERED (Partial List):

 

          Masculine Insecurity, Metaphor, and the Shaping of History, FOTIM INTER-

                NATIONAL GENDER CONFERENCE, Pretoria, South Africa, January 2006.

 

          “Eve’s Seed: The Deep History that has Shaped Women’s Worlds (and Those of Most

Men,” WOMEN’S WORLDS ’05, THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS ON WOMEN, Seoul, South Korea, June 2005.

 

“Eve’s Seed: The Prehistoric Sources of the History of Men and Women,” UNIVERSITY

       OF AUCKLAND, New Zealand, May 2004.

 

“What Do Men Want?—A Deep History of Freud’s View of Women,” Keynote Address,

       ANNUAL FREUD CONFERENCE, Melbourne, Australia, May 2004.

 

 “Sex as the Basis of Biohistory,” 2003 Meeting of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY

FOR THE HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL STUDIES OF BIOLOGY,

Vienna, Austria, July 2003.

 

“A Rapprochement between Biology and History with Anthropology as the

Mediator,” Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL

ASSOCIATION, New Orleans, November, 2002.

 

“Sex as the Model for Hierarchy and Power: ‘Prehistoric’ Sources of the

Assumption of Male Superiority Over Females as the Model Upon Which Hierarchy and Power Have Been Based in World Civilizations,” SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIERARCHY AND POWER IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATIONS, St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2002.

 

“Only Women Bleed: Masculine Insecurity, Language, & Civilization’s Discontents,”

Keynote Address at the Annual Meeting of the ORGANIZATION FOR THE STUDY OF COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE & GENDER, San Diego, October 2001.

 

“Biohistory: Neo-Darwinism’s Last Frontier,” RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON

BIOPOLITICS, U.C.L.A., 2001.

 

“Biohistory: Can Biology Contribute to the Study of History?” AMERICAN

HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Annual Meeting, Boston, 2001.

 

“The Great Depression and Traditional Values,” HORACE BRISTOL AND JOHN

STEINBECK IN THE AGE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION SYMPOSIUM, University of Georgia, 1995.

 

Umbras and Penumbras: Shadows and Writing About the Great Depression,”

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE NEW DEAL, Cambridge University, 1993.

 


“The Presidential Election and American History,” THE UNIVERSITY OF

ALABAMA HONORS LECTURE, 1988.

 

“The 1988 Election in Historical Perspective,” paper delivered at the

opening plenary session of ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS Annual Meeting, Reno, 1988.

 

“Franklin Roosevelt's Place in American Political History,” CHURCHILL

MEMORIAL, WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, Fulton, Missouri, 1984.

 

“‘Dear Mother Roosevelt’: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Mail from the Public During

the Depression,” ELEANOR ROOSEVELT CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE, Vassar College, 1984.

 

“Letters from the ‘Forgotten Man’ in the South,” opening lecture in the

CHANCELLOR’S SYMPOSIUM ON SOUTHERN HISTORY:  “The New Deal and the South,” The University of Mississippi, 1983.

 

“One-Third of a Nation:  Working-Class Culture as Reflected in Workers’ Letters,”

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 1980.

 

“Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement: Mississippi’s ‘Freedom

Summer’ of 1964,” SOUTHERN LABOR HISTORY CONFERENCE, Atlanta, 1978.

 

“The Effects of Economic Depression on Working-Class Attitudes:  The 1930’s,”

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Annual Meeting, Dallas, 1977.

 

“Thunder Without Lightning:  Socialism and Worker Discontent in the 1930’s,”

AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 1972.

 

 

CURRENT RESEARCH & WRITING:

 

“OH, FREEDOM!” (a social and political history of the 1960s).  Under contract with W. W. Norton.  Expected publication, Fall, 2008.        

 

“WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.”  (novel).  Expected completion 2008.

 

“THE GREAT DEPRESSION—A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION.”  Oxford University

       Press.  Expected completion 2008.

 

“DEBATING THE NEW DEAL” (co-author with Professor Anthony Badger of

Cambridge University).  Under contract with Rowman & Littlefield.  Expected completion 2008.

 


 

 

HONORS & AWARDS (Partial List):

 

  Awards

 

Carnegie-CASE Mississippi Professor of the Year, 2002.

 

Distinguished Professor Award, Millsaps College, 2001.

 

Council for Advancement and Support of Education,

National Professor of the Year, Silver Medal, 1988.

 

Distinguished Professor Award, Millsaps College, 1983.

 

Lambda Chi Alpha Professor of the Year Award, 1983, 1997.

 

Millsaps College Sigma Lambda Award for the Advancement of

       Sexual Equality, 1979.

 

  Fellowships & Grants

 

Fulbright Senior Scholar, New Zealand, 2007.

 

NEH Seminar, 1980-1981:  Brown University, Joan W. Scott:

       "The 'New' Labor History."

 

NEH Summer Stipend, 1979.

 

NEH Summer Seminar, 1978:  University of California at Berkeley,

Lawrence W. Levine: "The 'Folk' in American History."

 

Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Grant, 1975.

 

 

  Book Honors

 

Down and Out in the Great Depression: “Outstanding Books of 1983,”

       American Library Association; Editor’s Choice “Bear in Mind” Books, New York

Times Best Sellers List; “Notable Books of the Year,” 1983, New York Times Book Review; Runner-up for “Political Book of the Year,” Washington Monthly; “Best Dozen Books of 1983,” Newsday.

 

The Great Depression:  Editor’s Choice “Bear in Mind” Books, New York Times

Best Sellers List; Best of Business Twelve Outstanding Books of 1984; “Notable Books of the Year,” 1984, New York Times Book Review.

 

Mario Cuomo:  Editor’s Choice “Bear in Mind” Books, New York Times Best

Sellers List, 1988.

 


The Depression and New Deal: A History in Documents: University Press Best

Seller List, Library Journal, 2000.

 

Eve’s Seed: Featured selection of Natural Science Book Club; nominated for 2002

Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction; “Best Books of 2001,” Los Angeles Times Book Review.

 

 

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES (Partial List):

 

Lecturer for the United States Information Agency, Indonesia, 1998

 

Associate Editor, American National Biography, 20 volume publication of the

American Council of Learned Societies and Oxford University Press

 

Consultant to Blackside Productions for the 1993 Public Television series,

The Great Depression

 

Consultant to Smithsonian Productions and the Institute of Language and

Culture for Remembering Slavery, a radio series on Public Radio.

 

Member of Steering Committee, History News Service, 1996-2003.

 

Consultant to ABC Television for a segment of its 1999 historical series,

The Twentieth Century.

 

Contributor to speeches of Bill Clinton, fall, 1992; Walter Mondale, fall, 1984;

and Michael Dukakis, fall, 1988, and to speeches of President Clinton,

1993-95.

 

 

TELEVISION AND RADIO APPEARANCES (Partial List):

 

NBC Nightly News, NBC Television

 

ABC World News with Peter Jennings, ABC Television

 

Today Show, NBC Television

 

British Broadcasting Corporation television, London

 


The World Tonight, British Broadcasting Corporation radio,

worldwide

 

Voice of America, worldwide

 

Morning Edition, National Public Radio (4 appearances)

 

All Things Considered, National Public Radio (2 appearances)

         

          New Zealand National Radio

 

The History Channel

 

Judith Regan Tonight, Fox News Television

 

Christian Science Monitor Radio Network

 

Monitor Television

 

The Studs Terkel Show, WMFT Radio, Chicago

 

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television

 

Howard Cosell Speaking of Everything, ABC Radio

 

Michael Jackson, nationwide syndicated radio show

 

Kaleidoscope with Diane Rehm, WAMU Radio, Washington (2 appearances)

 

Carol Hemingway Show, KGIL Radio, Los Angeles (6 appearances)

 

Gene Burns Program, WOR Radio, New York

 

Jerry Williams Show, WRKO Radio, Boston

 

“Which Way L.A.?” KCRW Santa Monica, California

 

Frank Haines Show, KVEN, Ventura, California

 

Senior Edition, WNYC Radio, New York (2 appearances)

 

Boston Sunday Review, WBCN Radio, Boston

 

“These Days,” KPBS Radio, San Diego

 

“The Evening Talk Show,” KERA, Dallas

 


Plus many other appearances in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Dallas,

Tampa, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Miami, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Detroit, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, Baltimore, Manchester, Burlington, Concord, and other cities.

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

 

American Historical Association

 

Organization of American Historians

 

American Association of University Professors