Berger

Author of The United States, the PLO, and Stability in the Middle East, Henry Berger focuses on the history of American foreign relations, with particular interest in U.S. relations with the Middle East and Latin America. Berger, who has written on various aspects of U.S. foreign policy in the 20th ...

Iver Bernstein

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He is the author of "The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War," Oxford University Press. The 1990 book is considered the definite authority on this time in American history. Bernstein was awarded the George Washington Eggleston ...

Brick

Brick is an expert on the history of the United States since 1865, including a special focus on the history of labor, socialist and radical protest movements. His interests include U.S. intellectual, cultural, social and political history. He has written extensively about the relationship of capitalism ...

Leslie Brown is an expert in African-American history, especially the history of African-American women. Her recent journal articles include Jim Crow, The Sisters and Mothers are Called to the City: Black Women, Migration and Work, and Race, Place, Gender, and Space: The City as a Site of African American ...

Hirst

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Derek Hirst is a specialist in 17th-century British history and a longtime fellow of the prestigious Royal Historical Society. During the last decade, his studies have focused broadly on the meaning and consequences of the 17th-century English Revolution. Hirst is known for showing how cultural, societal ...

Ahmet Karamustafa

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Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...

Peter Kastor

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Peter Kastor, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of History, with a joint appointment as assistant director of American Culture Studies, both in Arts & Sciences. His research concerns the New Republic, the frontier, American expansion in the early 19th century, the Louisiana Purchase, ...

David Konig

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David Konig teaches colonial American history and civilization. His research interests include the development of constitutional and legal institutions in early America, Anglo-American legal history and American culture studies.

Douglass North

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Douglass North is co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He recently participated in a global forum designed to weigh costs-benefits of investing relief dollars in efforts to address various critical global challenges, such as war, famine and disease. His current research ...