America: A Concise History [with Lyndon B. Johnson + American Liberalism + When Did Southern Segregation Begin? + Our Hearts Fell]

by Bruce J. Schulman, John David Smith, Colin G. Calloway

Hardcover

First published October 23, 2003

About the author

Bruce J. Schulman is an American historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. political and economic history. He is the William E. Huntington Professor at Boston University and served as the Harmsworth Professor of American History at The Queen’s College, Oxford, from 2022 to 2023. Schulman is currently writing the volume covering 1896–1929 for the Oxford History of the United States.
A graduate of Yale University (BA, 1981) and Stanford University (MA, 1982; PhD, 1987), Schulman began his academic career at UCLA before joining Boston University in 1994. He has held leadership roles, including directing the American and New England Studies program and chairing the History Department. He currently leads the Institute for American Political History at BU.
Schulman has authored three books and written for The Washington Post and Politico. His teaching has been recognized with awards such as UCLA’s Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award (1993) and the American Historical Association’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award (2006).