Bruce J. Schulman (born December 16, 1959) is an American historian, currently the William E. Huntington professor at

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. From 2022-23, Schulman served as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at

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. Schulman is a 2025

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. According to his faculty profile, Schulman is writing the "volume for the

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covering the years 1896-1929."

Background

Schulman was born in New York City on December 16, 1959. He received a BA in History from

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in 1981, and received an MA and PhD in History from

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in 1982 and 1987 respectively.

Academic career

Schulman was appointed as an Assistant Professor of History at the

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in July 1987. He left UCLA in December 1993 and joined Boston University as a Professor of History in January 1994. From June 1997 to September 2002 Schulman served as the director of the American and New England Studies program at the university. From January 2010 to July 2013 he chaired the university's History Department. Schulman currently directs the Institute for American Political History at Boston University. He was appointed the Huntington Professor of History in July 2008.

Publications

Schulman is the author of three books on American political and economic history in the twentieth century. He has also written numerous opinion articles on American politics for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Recognition

While at UCLA in 1993 Schulman won the

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and Harriet Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. In 2006 Schulman received the

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Mentorship Award from the

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for his doctoral supervision.

Books

* ''From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980'' (Oxford University Press, 1991) * ''Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents'' (Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1994) * ''The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society'' (Free Press, 2001)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schulman, Bruce 1959 births Living people 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers Boston University faculty Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professors of American History Historians from New York City Stanford University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Yale College alumni