Maurice Isserman
{{Puffery|date=November 2023}}{{Short description|American historian (born 1951)}}
{{Infobox academic
|name = Maurice Isserman
|image = Image-Maurice Isserman Photo.jpg
|caption = Isserman in 2008
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|3|12}}
|birth_place = Hartford, Connecticut, US
|death_date =
|death_place =
|alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Reed College | University of Rochester}}
|doctoral_advisor = Eugene Genovese
|discipline = History
|workplaces = Hamilton College
|main_interests = {{hlist | History of American communism | history of the New Left}}
}}
Maurice Isserman (born 1951) is a Professor of History at Hamilton College. He has written about the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s. He co-authored a biography with Dorothy Ray Healey and authored a biography of Michael Harrington, both of whom were co-founders of Democratic Socialists of America.{{Cite web |title=Maurice Isserman - Faculty Directory |url=https://www.hamilton.edu/academics/our-faculty/directory/faculty-detail/maurice-isserman |access-date=2023-11-19 |website=Hamilton College |language=en}}
{{cite web
| title = Isserman Interviewed by Former Secty. of Education Bennett
| publisher = Hamilton College
| url = https://hamilton.edu/news/story/isserman-interviewed-by-former-secty-of-education-bennett
| date = 18 August 2008
| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} He has contributed editorials and book reviews to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Alpine Review. In 2008, he began writing about mountaineering.
Political views
Isserman has criticized the new Students for a Democratic Society for romanticizing the leadership of the Weatherman faction of the old SDS.Maurice Isserman, "How Old is the New SDS?" The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2007, pp. B10–B11.
Awards
- 2008: National Outdoor Book Award, Fallen Giants (with Stewart Weaver).
Works
=Books=
- Isserman, Maurice. (1982) Which Side Were You On? The American Communist Party during the Second World War. {{ISBN|978-0-252-06336-7}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (1987). If I Had a Hammer... The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. {{ISBN|0-465-03197-8}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Healey Dorothy. (1990). Dorothy Healey Remembers: A Life in the American Communist Party. {{ISBN|0-19-503819-3}}
- Reprinted as California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (1993). {{ISBN|978-0-252-06278-0}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (1992). America at War: The Korean War. {{ISBN|978-0816026883}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (1995). Witness to War: Vietnam. {{ISBN|978-0399521621}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (1997). Journey to Freedom: The African American Great Migration. {{ISBN|9780816034130}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Kazin, Michael. (2000). America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. {{ISBN|0-19-516047-9}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (2000).The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington. {{ISBN|1-58648-036-7}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John. (2005). Exploring North America, 1800-1900. {{ISBN|0816052638}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Weaver, Stewart. (2008). Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes. {{ISBN|978-0300164206}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). America at War: World War II. {{ISBN|978-0816081851}}
- Isserman, Maurice; Kenan, William R.; & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). America at War: Vietnam War. {{ISBN|978-0816081875}}
- Isserman, Maurice & Bowman, John Stewart. (2010). Across America: The Lewis And Clark Expedition. {{ISBN|9781604131925}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (2011). On The Hill: A Bicentennial History of Hamilton College 1812–2012. {{ISBN|978-0615432090}}
- Cronkite, Walter & Isserman, Maurice. (2013). Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home. {{ISBN|978-1426210198}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (2016). Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering. {{ISBN|978-0393353761}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (2019). The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors. {{ISBN|978-1328871435}}
- Isserman, Maurice. (2024). Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism. {{ISBN|978-1541620032}}
=Articles=
On October 20, 2017, Isserman contributed to "Red Century," a New York Times centenary series about the Bolshevik Revolution, with the article "When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism."
{{cite news
| first = Maurice
| last = Isserman
| authorlink = Maurice Isserman
| title = When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism
| work = New York Times
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/new-york-american-communism.html
| date = 20 October 2017
| accessdate = 26 October 2017}}
{{cite journal
| first = Maurice
| last = Isserman
| authorlink = Maurice Isserman
| title = How Old is the New SDS?
| journal = The Chronicle of Higher Education
| url = http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Old-Is-the-New-SDS-/10223
| date = 2 March 2007
| accessdate = 26 October 2017}}
{{cite journal
| first = Maurice
| last = Isserman
| authorlink = Maurice Isserman
| title = The Flower in the Gun Barrel
| journal = The Chronicle of Higher Education
| url = http://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Flower-in-the-Gun-Barrel/33639
| pages = B14–B15
| date = 19 October 2007
| accessdate = 26 October 2017}}
- "3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory," The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 19, 2007)
{{cite journal
| first = Maurice
| last = Isserman
| authorlink = Maurice Isserman
| title = 3 Days of Peace and Music, 40 Years of Memory
| journal = The Chronicle of Higher Education
| url = http://www.chronicle.com/article/3-Days-of-PeaceMusic-40/47939/
| date = 10 August 2009
| accessdate = 26 October 2017}}
See also
Notes
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External links
- [http://academics.hamilton.edu/history/home/misserma.html Maurice Isserman's Homepage at Hamilton College]
- [https://omeka.binghamton.edu/omeka/items/show/1196 Interview with Maurice Isserman] by Stephen McKiernan, Binghamton University Libraries Center for the Study of the 1960s
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