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.
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.
"The Electoral College Flunks", The New York Review of Books, Volume 52, Number 5 ยท 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