Professor Emeritus
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University
A.B., Columbia College
Courses
History 39: "Classics" in American History
History 103: Readings on Business in the History of American Life
History 124B: The United States Since 1940
History 161: The Emergence of the Modern Industrial State
History 285: Readings and Research on Business in the History of American Culture
Representative Publications
The Burdens of Progress: American Society, 1901-1929. (Scott, Foresman, 1978)
"The U.S. Military and Higher Education: A Brief History," Annals, American Association of Political and Social Science, V. 502, March 1989.
"Review Essay: Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction by Thomas K. McCraw" Business History Review 81:4 (Winter 2007).
"America, A Consumer Society?" Dissent Spring, 2008.
America Transformed: Sixty Years of Revolutionary Change, 1941-2001(Cambridge University Press, 2006). Paperback edition, 2008.