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Lizabeth Cohen

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#1159

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Lizabeth Cohen's Degrees

PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University, as well as a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. From 2011-2018 she served as the Dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Currently, she teaches courses in 20th-century America, with a focus on urbanism, the built environment, and public history. She has also served as the Chair of the History Department at Harvard, director of the undergraduate program in history, and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, among other administrative duties.

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Lizabeth Cohen's Published Works

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A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003) (808)
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. (1991) (539)
From Town Center to Shopping Center: The Reconfiguration of Community Marketplaces in Postwar America (1996) (156)
Embellishing a Life of Labor: An Interpretation of the Material Culture of American Working‐Class Homes, 1885–1915 (1980) (66)
Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s (1989) (33)
Making a New Deal (2014) (31)
Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. By Lawrence W. Levine (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988. xii plus 306 pp., 21 illus. $25.00) (1989) (30)
Buying into Downtown Revival: The Centrality of Retail to Postwar Urban Renewal in American Cities (2007) (23)
Is There An Urban History Of Consumption? (2003) (20)
Colston E. Warne Lecture: Is it Time for Another Round of Consumer Protection? The Lessons of Twentieth-Century U.S. History (2010) (18)
The New Deal State and the Making of Citizen Consumers (1998) (18)
Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894– 1922. By James R. Barrett (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. xvi + 290 pp. $24.95) (1988) (17)
The American pageant : a history of the American people (2013) (11)
Bringing institutions back in (1994) (6)
Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society. By Peter Stead. (London: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 1989. xi plus 283 pp. $47.50) (1992) (6)
Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945. By Elizabeth Faue. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xx + 295 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Paper, $14.95.) (1992) (6)
Ethnicity and Class in Little Germany@@@Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80. (1991) (5)
Negativity in a Twitter Age: How Politicians are Adapting to Social Media (2013) (5)
2. Re- viewing the Twentieth Century through an American Catholic Lens (2012) (5)
The UK research and ‘Bolar’ exemptions: broadening the scope for innovation? (2013) (4)
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940. By George Chauncey. (New York: BasicBooks, 1994. xii, 478 pp. Paper, $15.00, ISBN 0-46502621-4.) (1997) (4)
The Mass in Mass Consumption@@@New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America.@@@Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market.@@@For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption. (1990) (4)
Escaping Steigerwald's “Plastic Cages”: Consumers as Subjects and Objects in Modern Capitalism (2006) (3)
Paul Rudolph And The Rise And Fall Of Urban Renewal (2017) (3)
Conversation with Lizabeth Cohen (2004) (3)
What Kind of World Have We Lost? Workers' Lives and Deindustrialization in the Museum@@@Hagley Museum@@@Eckley Miners' Village@@@Homestead: The Story of a Steel Town (1989) (3)
Reflections on the making of Making a New Deal (1991) (2)
Making a New Deal: Contents (2014) (2)
Balancing Work and Family in the Historical Profession (2010) (2)
Encountering Mass Culture (2014) (1)
Recent dissertations in american and european labor history (1983) (1)
American Social History: A Historian's Labor in the Built Environment (2006) (1)
Struggling on the Home Front: The Personal, the Political, and Working-Class Women (1996) (1)
How to Teach Family History by Using an Historic House. (1975) (1)
Advanced Placement - United States History (2002) (1)
What is holding up the Unified Patent Court? (2018) (1)
Advanced Placement US History Course Description (2005) (0)
Katznelson's Working Within the System Now (1994) (0)
Making a New Deal: Workers' Common Ground (2014) (0)
A Historian's Reflection on the Unsustainable American State (2009) (0)
Recreating the Historic House Interior. William Seale (1980) (0)
Making a New Deal: Becoming a Union Rank and File (2008) (0)
Making a New Deal: Contested Loyalty at the Workplace (2014) (0)
Edward J. Logue (2016) (0)
Keynote Address for "What Works in Community Investing: A Community Development Summit" November 8, 2013 Piper Auditorium, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2013) (0)
Adrift in the Great Depression (2014) (0)
The legacy of Brody's Steelworkers (1993) (0)
Making a New Deal: Introduction (2008) (0)
The Masses and the Market (2003) (0)
Becoming a Union Rank and File (2014) (0)
14. Careers in Counterpoint (2018) (0)
Renewal in American Cities Buying into Downtown Revival: The Centrality of Retail to Postwar Urban (2007) (0)
Ethnicity in the New Era (2014) (0)
Tradition and the Working Class, 1850–1950 (1992) (0)
Making a New Deal: Preface to the Second Edition (2014) (0)
Making a New Deal: Encountering Mass Culture (2008) (0)
Place, People, and Power in City Building in Postwar America (2020) (0)
Families on the Faultline: America's Working Class Speaks about the Family, the Economy, Race, and Ethnicity. By Lillian B. Rubin. (New York: HarperCollins, 1994. xviii, 284 pp. $23.00, ISBN 0-06-016741-6.) (1995) (0)
Part 1 - Urban Renewal in New London: History and Legacies (2019) (0)
Making a New Deal: Ethnicity in the New Era (2008) (0)
A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Consumption in Post War America: An Interview with Lizabeth Cohen (2012) (0)
Learning Lessons from the Urban Renewal Era (2019) (0)
Book Review (2004) (0)
Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy. By Robert A. Slayton (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986. 278 pp. $22.00) (1988) (0)
The State and the Unions: Labor Relations, Law, and the Organized Labor Movement in America, 1880–1960. By Christopher L. Tomlins and American Workers, American Unions, 1920–1985. By Robert H. Zieger (1988) (0)
Steven Fraser, Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor. New York: Free Press, 1991. 686 pp. (1993) (0)
Making a New Deal: Workers Make a New Deal (2014) (0)
A Prospectus for Urban History (1992) (0)
Living and Working in Chicago in 1919 (2014) (0)
Mass Consumption and American Political Culture in the Twentieth Century (1998) (0)
The second stage of labor: is it shorter in African American and Puerto Rican women? (2000) (0)
The skilled person: an evolving concept. (2013) (0)

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