Ronald P. Formisano

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Ronald P. Formisano


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in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States
March 31, 1939

Died
February 20, 2024

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A specialist in the field of United States political culture and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth century and a founder of the “ethnocultural school” of US political history, Ron Formisano was the William T. Bryan Chair of American History at the University of Kentucky, where he taught from 2001 until his retirement in 2014. He earned a BA at Brown University and an MA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison before receiving his PhD from Wayne State University. Formisano also taught at the University of Florida (1990-2001), Clark University (1973-1990), and the University of Rochester (1968-1973).

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Boston Against Busing: Race...

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The Tea Party: A Brief History

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Plutocracy in America: How ...

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For the People: American Po...

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The Great Lobster War

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The Birth of Mass Political...

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The Transformation of Polit...

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“The black struggle for decent schools is recounted here in two chapters that argue that school segregation in Boston sprang largely from the democratic interaction of a school committee elected at-large and various of its constituents.”
Ronald P. Formisano, Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s

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