Alexander Keyssar

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Name Alexander Keyssar Role Historian

Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations Pulitzer Prize for History Books The Right to Vote, Out of work: the first centu, Inventing America: a History of, The Way of the Ship, Melville's Israel Potter Similar People Alex Roland, W Jeffrey Bolster, Arianna Huffington
Education Harvard University (1977)

The Contested History of Democracy in the United States: Politics, Voting (2000)

Alexander Keyssar (born May 13, 1947) is an American historian, and the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard University.

Alexander keyssar the right to vote

Life

He graduated from Harvard University with a PhD in the History of American Civilization. He taught at Brandeis University, Duke University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. His current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.

He writes for the Huffington Post.

Awards

1987 Frederick Jackson Turner Award; Philip Taft Labor History Prize for Out of Work

2001 Beveridge Prize for The Right to Vote; Eugene Genovese Prize for The Right to Vote

2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist for The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

2001 Parkman Prize, Finalist

2005 Fulbright Specialists University of Lisbon

Works

"The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 · March 24, 2005

Keyssar, Alexander (October 17, 2004). "Peculiar institution". The Boston Globe.

Melville's Israel Potter: reflections on the American dream. Harvard University Press. 1969. ISBN 978-0-674-56475-6.

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts. Cambridge University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-521-29767-7.

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. Basic Books. 2001. ISBN 978-0-465-02969-3. (2000) revised 2009

Inventing America: A History of the United States. W.W. Norton. 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-97435-5.

Anthologies

Sondra Myers, ed. (2002). "The Project of Democracy". The democracy reader. IDEA. ISBN 978-0-9702130-3-7.

Jack N. Rakove, ed. (2002). "The Right to Vote and Election 2000". The Unfinished Election Of 2000: Leading Scholars Examine America's Strangest Election. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-06838-8.

Co-author

Alex Roland, W. Jeffrey Bolster, Alexander Keyssar (2008). The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000. John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-13600-3. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)

Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history

Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5

References

Alexander Keyssar Wikipedia

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