Nancy Isenberg
{{Short description|Jewish American historian}}
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Nancy G. Isenberg (born 1958) is an American historian and T. Harry Williams Professor of history at Louisiana State University.
Life
She graduated from Rutgers University, and University of Wisconsin.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lsu.edu/hss/history/people/faculty/isenberg.php|title=Nancy Isenberg|website=www.lsu.edu|access-date=2019-03-02}} In 2017, she wrote the book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.
Awards
- 1999, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) book prize for Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America
- 2003, First Union International Fellowship, International Center for Jefferson Studies
- 2003-2004 and 2007–2008, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
- 2008, Award for best non-fiction book for Fallen Founder, Oklahoma Center for the Book
- 2008, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography
- 2016, shared with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation{{cite web|url=https://www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com/foundation-news/2016-american-book-awards-announced/|title=2016 American Book Awards Announced! {{!}} Before Columbus Foundation|date=15 August 2016|website=www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com|language=en|accessdate=24 November 2018}}
- 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine's Annual List of the “50 Most important Thinkers”
- 2017, LSU Distinguished Research Master Award
- 2017, Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
- 2017, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for White Trash
Works
- {{cite book|author1=Andrew Burstein|author2=Nancy Isenberg|title=Madison and Jefferson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9r_t-m8GM1wC|date=15 January 2013|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8129-7900-8}}
- {{cite book| title=Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmMtbk9MZ3YC|year=2007|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-670-06352-9}}
- {{cite book| author=Nancy Isenberg|author2=Andrew Burstein|title=Mortal Remains: Death in Early America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gmgUBAAAQBAJ|date=5 July 2012|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-0806-1}}
- {{cite book|title=Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zF3MCQAAQBAJ|date=9 November 2000|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-6683-2}}
- {{cite book| title=White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kse3CgAAQBAJ|date=21 June 2016|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-60848-7}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/06/23/a-cultural-and-political-history-of-white-trash-america/|title="White Trash" — a cultural and political history of an American underclass|last=Lozada|first=Carlos|date=2016-06-23|newspaper=The Washington Post|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286|access-date=2016-08-21}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/books/review/white-trash-by-nancy-isenberg.html|title=A Look at America's Long and Troubled History of White Poverty|last=Sugrue|first=Thomas J.|date=2016-06-24|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-08-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://psmag.com/americas-long-rich-history-of-trashing-poor-whites-4b4fc19191f8#.amttbycag|title=America's Long, Rich History of Trashing Poor Whites — Pacific Standard|last=Lingan|first=John|date=2016-06-21|access-date=2016-08-21}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/439200/white-trash-review-nancy-isenbergs-new-book-bad-history|title=The White-Minstrel-Show Version of History|last=|first=|date=20 August 2016|website=|publisher=National Review|access-date=2016-08-21}}
- {{cite book|author1=Andrew Burstein|author2=Nancy Isenberg|title=The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality|year=2019|publisher=Viking|isbn=978-0-5255-5750-0}}
References
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External links
- {{official|http://www.nancyisenberg.com}}
- {{C-SPAN|1024494}}
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century American historians
Category:Historians of the United States
Category:Rutgers University alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Category:University of Tulsa faculty
Category:Louisiana State University faculty
Category:American Book Award winners
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