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Oxford History of the United States, vol. 8

Reawakened Nation: The Birth of Modern America, 1896-1929

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736 pages, Hardcover

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Bruce J. Schulman

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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).

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June 1, 2020
Where is this book? I’ve been looking forward to it, since I’ve made it through all of the other volumes in the series (with the exception of the one on foreign policy).
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July 13, 2022
Choosing this author was a monumental mistake by the publishing organization for this series.
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February 1, 2026
I have emailed the author several times. Each time he gives me a new date - 2021, 2023, 2025 etc. I've given up...
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