Background

Bruce J. Schulman was born on December 16, 1959, in New York, United States. He is the son of Bernard A. and Marianne (Harpuder) Schulman.

Education

Schulman received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1981. He also holds a Master of Arts (1982) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1987) from Stanford University.

Career

Bruce J. Schulman started his teaching career as an assistant professor and then became an associate professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles from 1987 to 1993. In 1989-1990, Schulman also served as Director of the History Project in California, a joint effort of the University of California and the California State Department of Education to improve history education in the public primary and secondary schools.

He then served as director of the New England studies department from 1997 to 2002, as professor of history from 1994 to 2008, and chair of the History Department from 2010 to 2013 at Boston University. Since 2008 Bruce is the William E. Huntington Professor of History.

From 2000-2009, he led a Teaching American History (TAH) Grant program that partners Boston University with the Boston Public Schools.

Schulman also directs the Institute for American Political History at Boston University. The Institute seeks to establish Boston University as a leading center for the study of America's political past.

He is the author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (1991), Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (1994), and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (2001), named one of the New York Times' notable books of the year. He is also the editor of Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth-Century America (2014), and a coeditor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (2008), Recapturing the Oval Office: New Historical Approaches to the American Presidency (2015), and Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America (2015).

A contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, as well as websites such as Politico and Reuters, Schulman has appeared as an expert commentator on many television and radio programs and has consulted on productions by the History Channel, PBS, and ABC-News.

Achievements

• Bruce J. Schulman is a widely recognized historian, author, and educator. He has held research fellowships from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, and the Marjorie Kovler Fund of the Blum-Kovler Foundation.
  
  In 1993 Schulman received the Charles and Harriet Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. In January 2006, the American Historical Association conferred on him the Nancy Lyman Roelker Award for graduate mentorship. In December 2007 he was named the United Methodist Scholar/Teacher of the Year. In 2015, he was named a national semi-finalist for the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teachers.

Works

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  • From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South 1938-1980

    (From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt investigates the effects of f...)

    1991
  • Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism: A Brief Biography with Documents

    (Whether admired or reviled, Lyndon B. Johnson and his tum...)

    1994
  • The Seventies: The Great Shift in American culture, Society, and Politics 2001
  • Making the American Century: Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America 2014
  • Student′s Guide to the Presidency 2009
  • Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America 2017
  • Student′s Guide to the Supreme Court 2010

Views

Schulman's teaching and research concentrate on the history of the modern United States, particularly on the relationships between politics and broader cultural change. As much as he values teaching and original research, Schulman believes that scholars have an important role to play in public debate. In his writing and speaking, he has tried to lend a historical perspective to discussions of contemporary issues.

Connections

Bruce married in 1989 and has two children.

Father:

Bernard A. Schulman

Mother:

Marianne (Harpuder) Schulman

References

• Bruce J. Schulman - Twitter