US labor history, New York City
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Y
Phone: 718-997-5047
Fax: 718-997-5359
jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu
Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is associated with its Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. Professor Freeman received a BA from Harvard University and MA and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He previously taught at Columbia University and the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He has written extensively about the history of labor, modern America, and New York City. His books include American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 (Viking, 2012), Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (New Press, 2000) and In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 (Oxford University Press, 1989; reprinted with Temple University Press, 2001). With Steve Fraser he co-edited Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Renewal of America (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), and he co-authored with a team of scholars Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society, volume 2 (Pantheon Books, 1992). He has written articles and book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and The Nation and served as co-editor of the journal International Labor and Working-Class History. Professor Freeman has appeared in a number of television documentaries, including Ric Burns's New York: A Documentary Film.
18th- and 19th-century United States
Powdermaker Hall, Room 352
Phone: 718-997-
Fax: 718-997-5359
donald.scott@qc.cuny.edu
Professor Donald Scott earned his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin. Among his books are The Myth-Making Frame of Mind: Essays in American Culture (Wadsworth, 1992), edited with James Gilbert, Amy Gilmore & Joan W. Scott; In Pursuit of Liberty (Random House, 1983) with R.J. Wilson, James Gilbert, and Steven Nissenbaum, and Karen Kuperman; and America's Families: A Documentary History (Harper & Row, 1981) with Bernard W. Wishy.