Background
Lessoff, Alan H. was born on February 24, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Stanley Lessoff and Carole Halterman.
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In this first study of the politics and policy-making behind the creation of "modern" Washington, Alan Lessoff explores a city that would seem an exception to the usual rules of urban development, one without industry and commercial growth to drive it. He argues, however, that this absence of typical economic interests allows a particularly clear view of politics and urban issues in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Explaining how government in post-Civil War Washington promoted prosperity, established aesthetic standards, protected health and safety, managed race relations, and resolved federal-local conflicts, Lessoff reveals the true character of American politics and policy-making in the period as never before. "In completely recasting our understanding of Washington as it emerged as a modern city, Alan Lessoff has not only revised the history of the capital, but shed new light on a national political ethos that, in promoting improvement, often cast citizens in a secondary role. His study will challenge political scientists, historians, and urbanists to rethink their views of the Gilded Age."--Howard F. Gillette, Jr., George Washington University.
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The Progressive Era, the period in the United States between 1898 and 1917, was a time of great social, political, and industrial change. Following the Spanish-American War of 1898, an event that signaled the emergence of the United States as a great power, the country soon was involved in its first overseas guerrilla war, in the Philippines. Vast changes in communications and transportation, immigration and migration patterns, social mores, gender roles, family structure, class structure, work patterns, business methods, education, intellectual life, religion, the professions, technology, science, medicine, and much else were transforming the scope and feel of people's lives and relationships. In many ways what happened in this era set the agenda for the rest of the 20th century. The Historical Dictionary of the Progressive Era is the most comprehensive and coherent reference work on the Progressive Era. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, appendixes, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the key events, people, organizations, and ideas of the period, this resource is a lively, complete, and accessible overview of this significant era.
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Lessoff, Alan H. was born on February 24, 1959 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Stanley Lessoff and Carole Halterman.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1981. Bachelor, Cambridge University, England, 1983. Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1985.
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1990.
Assistant professor Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 1990-1992. Assistant to associate professor Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, Corpus Christi, 1992-2000. Fulbright professor University Kassel, Kassel, Germany, 1996-1997.
Associate professor history Illinois State University, Normal, 2000—2004, professor, since 2004. Fulbright professor Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006. Guest professor University Bielefeld, Germany, since 2010.
Fulbright professor Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 2006.
( In this first study of the politics and policy-making b...)
(The Progressive Era, the period in the United States betw...)
Member Society Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (newsletter editor 1999-1903), Urban History Association (prize committee chair 1999, program committee 2002-2004, 2008, board directors 2006-2009), Society Area, City, and Regional Planning History (program committee 1998-2001), Organization American Historians, American History Association.
Married Mineke Reinders, April 25, 1987. 1 child, Audrey.