Edward Pessen (1920–1992) was an American historian.[1]

Life

Edeard Pessen was born to a working-class Jewish immigrant family in New York City. After army service Pessen completed undergraduate education (in 1947) and gained a PhD (in 1954) from Columbia University. He taught at several universities, ending as professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York. He was a founder of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and was the society's president in 1985–6.[1]

Works

  • The social philosophies of early American leaders of labor, 1954
  • Most uncommon Jacksonians: the radical leaders of the early labor movement, 1967
  • New perspectives on Jacksonian parties and politics, 1969
  • Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics, 1969
  • Riches, class, and power before the Civil War, 1973
  • Three centuries of social mobility in America, 1974
  • Jacksonian panorama, 1976
  • The Many-faceted Jacksonian era: new interpretations, 1977
  • The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents, 1984

References

  1. 1 2 Nore, Ellen (2014). "Pessen, Edward (1920–1992)". In D. R. Woolf (ed.). A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing. Routledge. p. 705. ISBN 978-1-134-81998-0.
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