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Biography
Education
Ph.D. - Harvard University 1979
A.M. - Harvard University 1975
A.B. - Princeton University 1971
Current Departmental Service
ON LEAVE
Interests and Research
Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History.From 2003 to 2008, he was University
Provost, and for three years before that chair of the Department of
History. He been at Columbia since 1991
and taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, and the City University Graduate
School.In 1998-99, he was the
Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His published
works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great
Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The
Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The
End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); Liberalism
and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(Oxford, forthcoming 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American
Century (Knopf, forthcoming 2010). His
essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such
periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New
York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New
Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of
Books. He has received fellowships
from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow
Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies Center,
Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he has been the recipient of the
Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher
Award at Columbia. He is chairman of the
board of trustees of the Century Foundation, a trustee of Oxford University
Press, a trustee of the National Humanities Center, and a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard,
Princeton, and the City University of New York Graduate School. He received his A.B. from Princeton and his
Ph.D. from Harvard.
Affiliations
Chairman, Board of Trustees, The Century Foundation
Member, Editorial Board, The American Prospect
Fellow and Member of Executive Board, Society of American Historians
Trustee, The Dalton School, 1999-2005
Member, Board of Directors, New York Council for the Humanities, 1995-2003
Executive Committee of the Delegates, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-2003
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American History, 1993-1996
Organization of American Historians: Program Committee, 1987; Co-chair, Program Committee, 1992; Executive Board, 1990-1993
Member, Visiting Committee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Humanities Department, 1996-2003
Member, History Department Visiting Committee, Princeton University, 1983-1990
Teaching
Courses
HIST W3493 U.S. History 1919-1945
Awards
Great Teacher Award, Columbia University
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Russell Sage Foundation Fellowship
Media Studies Center Fellowship
National Humanities Center Fellowship
Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Fellowship
National Book Award for History
Robert L. Brown Prize of the Louisiana Historical Association
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Selected Publications
Books:
Liberalism and Its Discontents
The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression
American History: A Survey
The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
Days of Destiny: Crossroads in American History
The Readers Companion to the American Presidency
The Chicago Handbook for Teachers: A Practical Guide to the College Classroom
Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States
New Federalist Papers
Articles, Essays, Published Lectures:
"The Past as Prologue?" Richard C. Leone and Greg Anrig, Jr., eds., Liberty Under Attack: Reclaiming Our Freedoms in an Age of Terror (New York: Public Affairs Press, 2007), pp. 25-49.
"Liberalism and the Problem of Belief." Neil Jumonville, ed., Liberalism for a New Century. University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 75-89.
"The Debate over the Constitutional Revolution of 1937," Introduction to an AHR Forum, American Historical Review, 110 (October 2005), pp. 1046-1051.
"The Challenges and Rewards of Textbook Writing." Journal of American History, 91 (March 2005), 1391-1397.
"A Familiar Story: Lessons from Past Assaults on Freedoms." Richard C. Leone and Gregory Anrig, Jr. eds., The War on Our Freedoms. Public Affairs Press, 2003. pp. 23-46.
"Public and Private in the Culture of the 1960s." Storia Nordamerica, 2003.
"The New Deal Experiments." William H. Chafe, ed., The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. Columbia University Press, 2003.
"The Idea of the American Century." Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, eds., The American Century. Cornell University Press, 2002.
"July 20, 1925: The Scopes Trial, Darrow v. Bryan." James M. McPherson and Alan Brinkley, eds., Days of Destiny: Crossroads in American History. DK Publishing, 2001, pp. 264-277.
"Every Four Years: A History of Presidential Campaigns." Introducton to Ted Widmer, The New York Times, Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races (DK Publishing, 2001), pp. 6-25.
Imagining the Twentieth Century. The Harmsworth Inaugural Lecture, Oxford University, 1999. Oxford University Press, 1999.
Culture and Politics in the Great Depression. The 20th Charles Edmondson Historical Lectures, Baylor University, 1998. Baylor University Press, 1999.
"Reflections on the Past and Future of Urban Liberalism." John Mollenkopf and Ken Emerson, eds., Rethinking the Urban Agenda: Reinvigorating the Liberal Tradition in New York City and Urban America. Century Foundation Press, 2001. pp. 13-22.
"The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State." Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Politics at the Turn of the Century. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. pp. 60-75.
"The National Resource Planning Board and the Reconstruction of Planning." Robert Fishman, ed., The American Planning Tradition: Culture and Policy. Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. pp. 173-192.
"The Illusion of Unity in Cold War Culture." Peter Kuznick and James B. Gilbert, eds., Rethinking Cold War Culture. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001. pp. 61-73.
"1968 and the Unravelling of Liberal America." Carole Fink et al., eds., 1968: The World Transformed. Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 219-236.
"Robert Penn Warren, T. Harry Williams, and Huey Long: Mass Politics in the Historical and Literary Imaginations." Glen Jeansonne, ed., Huey at 100: Centennial Essays on Huey P. Long. McGinty, 1995, pp. 17-32.
"World War II and American Liberalism." Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch, eds., The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. University of Chicago Press, 1995, pp. 313-330.
"The Problem of American Conservatism." American Historical Review, 99 (April 1994), 409-429.
"Historians and Their Publics." Journal of American History, 81 (December 1994), 1027-1030.
"The Crisis of Modern Leadership." Wilson Quarterly, 18 (Spring 1994), 47-54.
"The Antimonopoly Ideal and the Liberal State: The Case of Thurman Arnold." Journal of American History, 80 (September 1993), 557-579.
"The New Deal and the Idea of the State." Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order. Princeton University Press, 1989. pp. 85-121.
"Prosperity, Depression, and War, 1920-1945." Eric Foner, ed., The New American History. Temple University Press, 1997. pp. 1133-158.
"Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: A Reconsideration." Reviews in American History, 13 (September 1985), 462-480.
"The New Deal and Southern Politics." James C. Cobb and Michael V. Namarato, eds., The New Deal and the South. University of Mississippi Press, 1984, pp. 97-115.
"Writing the History of Contemporary America: Dilemmas and Challenges." Daedalus, 113 (Summer 1984), 121-142.
"Huey Long, the Share-Our-Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence." Louisiana History, 22 (1981), 117-134.
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