Joshua Brown is an American social
historian
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, and former Executive Director, of the
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning, at
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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.
He graduated from
City College of New York
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''magna cum laude'' with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, from
Columbia University
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with an M.A. in American History in 1976, and a Master of Philosophy in American History in 1978, and with a Ph.D. in 1993.
Awards
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2010 Guggenheim Fellowship
Works
''History from South Africa: alternative visions and practices'' Editor Joshua Brown, Temple University Press, 1991,
*''Who Built America? Volume 1: To 1877; Working People and the Nation's History'', Authors Christopher Clark, American Social History Project, Nancy Hewitt, Joshua Brown, David Jaffee, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007,
''Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction'' Authors Eric Foner, Joshua Brown, Random House, Inc., 2006,
''Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America'' University of California Press, 2006,
References
External links
''History News Network''
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
City College of New York alumni
CUNY Graduate Center faculty
Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
American male non-fiction writers
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