David Goldfield
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| occupation = Historian, Writer, Professor, and Director
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| alma_mater = University of Maryland (Ph.D.)
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| subject = American South, American Civil War, urban history
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| notableworks = Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture; Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers; America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
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| awards = Mayflower Award for nonfiction, Outstanding Book Awhard from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights
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David R. Goldfield is an American historian, writer, film director, and professor. He is a long-time supporter of the Democratic Party. He is the author of sixteen books,{{cite web |url=http://www.sitesofconscience.org/leaders/david-goldfield-ph-d/ |title=David Goldfield, Ph.D. |author= |website=International Coalition of Sites of Conscience |publisher=International Coalition of Sites of Conscience |access-date=4 January 2016}} including Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture and Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers. Both of these books were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.{{cite web |url=http://www.asjournal.org/53-2009/list-of-contributors-no-53/ |title=List of Contributors |author= |date=2009 |website=American Studies Journal |publisher=American Studies Journal |access-date=4 January 2016}} Currently, he is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Charlotte.{{cite web |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/david-r-goldfield |title=David R. Goldfield |author= |website=SAGE Publishing |publisher=SAGE Publishing |access-date=4 January 2016}}
Education
Goldfield is originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but grew up in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite web |url=http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=16+4294948317&Ntk=P_EPI&Ntt=1051144174157161845516517335211461554486&Ntx=mode%2Bmatchallpartial |title=Major Problems in the History of the American South, Volume 2, 3rd Edition |author= |website=Cengage Learning |publisher=Cengage Learning |access-date=4 January 2016}} He attended the University of Maryland, and earned his PhD in 1970.{{cite web |url=https://clas-pages.uncc.edu/david-goldfield/ |title=David Goldfield |author= |website=University of North Carolina, Charlotte |publisher=University of North Carolina, Charlotte |access-date=4 January 2016}}
Career
Goldfield has held his current position as Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History since 1982. His research interests mainly focus on the American South, Urban History, and the American Civil War. He is the editor of the Journal of Urban History.
Goldfield has served as an expert witness in voting rights cases and consulted for history museums. He also works as an Academic Specialist for the US State Department, which means he leads workshops and seminars that focus on American political culture and help to provide historical context for present-day elections.
He is the author or editor of sixteen books. Two of his books, Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture and Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers, won the Mayflower Award for nonfiction and were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The former book was also awarded the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. Currently, he is working on a book titled, The Gifted Generation: America in the Post War Era.
Publications
- The American Journey Combined Volume (7th Edition), co-author, 2013, {{ISBN|9780205958528}}
- America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation, 2011, {{ISBN|978-1608193905}}
- The Encyclopedia of American Urban History, editor, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0761928843}}
- Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred, 2003, {{ISBN|978-0820325613}}
- Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History, 2003
- The South for New Southerners, editor, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0807819326}}
- Promised Land: The South Since 1945, 1987, {{ISBN|978-0882958439}}
- Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers, 1982, {{ISBN|978-0807110294}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/david-goldfield-america-aflame/ David Goldfield: America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation at Pritzker Military Museum & Library]
- [http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/931 Organization of American Historians: David Goldfield]
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