Fall 2008:
HIST 102.002, 102.003
HIST 410.001 American Voyage 1877-1945 Research Seminar

Spring 2009: TBA

Professor of History

Office: Maybank 213

Phone: 843-953-5938
Fax: 843-953-6349

M.A., 1969,Queens College of the City University of New York
Ph.D., 1974 , New York University

Teaching Interests:
Chronological: U.S., 1800-1940

Topical:  American Film, American Religion, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, 1920's Society and Culture; New Deal; U.S. Culture of the 1950's and 1960's

Research Interests: American Intellectual History; History of Baseball; American Jewish History; Zionism; 19^th & 20^th Century American Literature

Publications:
20 Book Reviews in such publications as Bulletin of the History of Medicine, American Historical Review,The International History Review,The Historian and Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) Review.

22 Scholarly Articles in major journals including Wiener Library Bulletin, American Jewish Archives, Jewish Social Studies,  Journal of the West, YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Science, Negro History Bulletin, Australian Journal of Politics and History, Slavery and Abolition, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Mediterranean Historical Review, and Journal of American,Studies of Turkey.

3 Monographs, one of which deals with American Zionism, The Concept of Zionist Dissent in the American Mind 1917-1941, another with the interplay of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era upon Christian Science,Christian Science in the Age of Mary Baker Eddy, and the last with American literary figure Hervey Allen, Hervey Allen (1889-1949):  A Literary Historian in America, whose creative range extended to poetry, biography and historic fiction. His best known work of the latter genre was Anthony Adverse, which was published in 1933 and won four academy awards as a 1936 movie.

Courses in Area of Specialization:
American Ethnic and Immigration History

U.S.:  The Young Republic 1800-1845

Modern Jewish History: French Revolution to the Present

History 590:Graduate Jefferson/Jackson America

History 590:  American Jewish History

History 410 : Gilded Age through World War II Research Seminar