Background
He was born in Manhattan and died in Berkeley, California.
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book
The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History by Levine, Lawrence W. (1993) Hardcover
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The national temper
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Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade 1915-1925
(Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of Willia...)
Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of William Jennings Bryan in his last years as an unchanging Progressive whose roots were deeply embedded in agrarian populism. It changes the standard picture of Bryan in his final years as that of a crusader for social and economic reform sadly transformed into a reactionary champion of anachronistic rural evangelism, cheap moralistic panaceas, and Florida real estate. He pleaded for for progressive labor laws, liberal taxes, government aid to farmers, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones, federal development of water resources, minimum wages for labor, and other advanced causes.
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The shaping of Twentieth-Century America; Interpretive Articles Selected and with Commentary
(682 page paperback book on America in the 20th Century.)
682 page paperback book on America in the 20th Century.
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The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History
("The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke,...)
"The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past that is unpredictable." But it is not solely in totalitarian societies that the past is contested terrain. Disagreements about the meaning and significance of past events and people have been part of the landscape in our own society from its inception. To the historian, therefore, the unpredictability of the past is no laughing matter. Indeed, so protracted have historical disputes become in recent years that there has been a growing conviction among many that the venerable craft of history is in a state of crisis. In this brilliant new collection of essays, Lawrence W. Levine, one of our premier writers of history and President-Elect of the Organization of American Historians, offers an incisive response to the controversy which rages in the academy today. This debate among historians does not concern, as one might think, conflicting interpretations of the past, but rather concentrates upon which past events, peoples, and cultures are significant enough to deserve our attention. Taking issue with those who desire "synthesis" above all else, Levine's book constitutes a passionate call for inclusion, a history that extends the traditional focus on the centers of political, economic, and social power to embrace the panoply of ethnic, racial, regional, occupational, class, and gender groups that have been ignored or distorted in the past, and subject areas--like folk and popular culture--that have been by-passed or denigrated as trivial. The fourteen essays included here seek not to erect new fences and shut more doors but to expand our knowledge, supplement our approaches, and broaden our historical vision. The Unpredictable Past offers eloquent discussions of American history and historiography at large, African-American culture, and, perhaps most fascinating, the times of the Great Depression during which film, radio, photography, and even the comic strip emerged as significant manifestations of a changing American popular culture. There are also trenchant examinations of folk songs and folktales, Marcus Garvey's role as a black leader in the 1920s, jazz and American culture, Hollywood's unique view of national government in Washington (especially as seen in the films of Frank Capra), even Shakespeare's role as the most popular playwright in nineteenth-century America. The immediacy of each essay is enhanced by the brief introductions that place each one not only in the context of Levine's career, but in that of American history as a whole. Through the course of the book, Levine demonstrates how history, from generation to generation, is viewed through the prism of an ever-changing present and rather than distorting our vision, offers us new ways of seeing things, fresh insights not only into the past, but into the present and the future as well. The Unpredictable Past is a remarkably wide-ranging lens for viewing the richly textured history of America.
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The national temper : readings in American history.
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- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History 1st edition by Levine, Lawrence W. (1996) Hardcover
- The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History by Lawrence W. Levine (1993-06-03)
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine (1996-09-01)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness (BRAND NEW)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared...)
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine (1996-09-30)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine (2007-04-27)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 30th Anniversary Edition
- SHAPING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA Interpretive Essays (American History)
- The Opening of the American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine (1997-08-14)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine (2007-04-01)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (Anniversary) BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: AFRO-AMERICAN FOLK THOUGHT FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM (ANNIVERSARY) By Levine, Lawrence W. ( Author )May-0
- By the late Lawrence W. Levine - Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (30th Edition) (4/24/07)
- The Fireside Conversations: America Responds to FDR during the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Levine (2010-09-07)
Lawrence William Levine
Edit ProfileEducation
He graduated from the City College of New York in 1955, and from Columbia University, with a master"s degree and a doctorate in 1962, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter.
Career
He was noted for promoting multiculturalism and the perspectives of ordinary people in the study of history. He taught at Princeton University from 1962-1963, and then at the University of California at Berkeley from 1963 to 1994. After retiring from Berkeley, he taught at George Mason University from 1994 to 2005.
He participated in civil rights sit-ins at Berkeley and in the South, and the Free Speech Movement.
Achievements
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Levine was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1983, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. He was president of the Organization of American Historians in 1992-1993. An award in his name is given by the Organization of American Historians.
Works
book
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Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade 1915-1925
(Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of Willia...)
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Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom
(When Black Culture and Black Consciousness first appeared...)
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History
("The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke,...)
-
The shaping of Twentieth-Century America; Interpretive Articles Selected and with Commentary
(682 page paperback book on America in the 20th Century.)
-
SHAPING OF TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA Interpretive Essays
(American History)
-
Black Culture and Black Consciousness
(BRAND NEW)
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History 1st edition by Levine, Lawrence W. (1996) Hardcover
- The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History by Levine, Lawrence W. (1993) Hardcover
- The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural History by Lawrence W. Levine (1993-06-03)
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine (1996-09-01)
- The national temper
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History by Lawrence W. Levine (1996-09-30)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine (2007-04-27)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom 30th Anniversary Edition
- The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History
- The Opening of the American Mind by Lawrence W. Levine (1997-08-14)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom by Lawrence W. Levine (2007-04-01)
- Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (Anniversary) BLACK CULTURE AND BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS: AFRO-AMERICAN FOLK THOUGHT FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM (ANNIVERSARY) By Levine, Lawrence W. ( Author )May-0
- By the late Lawrence W. Levine - Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (30th Edition) (4/24/07)
- The Fireside Conversations: America Responds to FDR during the Great Depression by Lawrence W. Levine (2010-09-07)
- The national temper : readings in American history.
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Defender of the Faith: William Jennings Bryan: The Last Decade 1915-1925
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Born
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Political Party
The People
Awards
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Social Science Research Council fellow, 1965-1966, Regents fellow National Museum American History Smithsonian Institution, 1981-1982, Woodrow Wilson fellow International Center for Scholars, 1982-1983, MacArthur Foundation fellow, 1983-1988, fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1990-1991.Social Science Research Council fellow, 1965-1966, Regents fellow National Museum American History Smithsonian Institution, 1981-1982, Woodrow Wilson fellow International Center for Scholars, 1982-1983, MacArthur Foundation fellow, 1983-1988, fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1990-1991.
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Social Science Research Council fellow, 1965-1966, Regents fellow National Museum American History Smithsonian Institution, 1981-1982, Woodrow Wilson fellow International Center for Scholars, 1982-1983, MacArthur Foundation fellow, 1983-1988, fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1990-1991.Social Science Research Council fellow, 1965-1966, Regents fellow National Museum American History Smithsonian Institution, 1981-1982, Woodrow Wilson fellow International Center for Scholars, 1982-1983, MacArthur Foundation fellow, 1983-1988, fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1990-1991.