Irwin Unger is an American historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 and academic specializing in economic history, the history of the 1960s

1960s

The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe...

, and the history of the Gilded Age

Gilded Age

In United States history, the Gilded Age refers to the era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post–Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. The term "Gilded Age" was coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded...

. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University

Columbia University

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 in 1958 and is currently Professor Emeritus of History at New York University.

Unger won the Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 for History in 1965 for his book, The Greenback Era.

Books

Among Unger's published books are:

• The Guggenheims: A Family History, (with Debi Unger, 2005)
• LBJ : A Life, (with Debi Unger, 1999)
• The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader (with Debi Unger, 1998)
• The Best of Intentions: The Great Society Programs of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1995)
• Turning Point, 1968, (with Debi Unger, 1988)
• These United States: The Questions of Our Past (1978)
• The Vulnerable Years: The United States, 1896-1917 (1977)
• The Movement: The American New Left 1959-1973 (1973)
• The Greenback Era (1965)

In addition, Unger has written a number of textbooks on modern American history

History of the United States

The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...

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External links

• Faculty Profile of Irwin Unger, New York University