Joshua Brown (historian)

Joshua Brown
Nationality	American
Academic background
Alma mater	City College of New York Columbia University
Academic work
Discipline	History
Institutions	CUNY Graduate Center

Joshua Brown is an American social historian, 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.

He graduated from City College of New York magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, from Columbia University 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

• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

• History from South Africa: alternative visions and practices, Editor Joshua Brown, Temple University Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-87722-848-6
• 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, ISBN 978-0-312-44691-8
• Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, Authors Eric Foner, Joshua Brown, Random House, Inc., 2006, ISBN 978-0-375-70274-7
• Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, University of California Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-520-24814-4

External links

• "Interview with Joshua Brown: The Historian as Illustrator (Or Illustrator as Historian)", History News Network
• Appearances on C-SPAN