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Bachelors History Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Sean Wilentz is an American historian who serves as the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1979. His primary research interests include U.S. social and political history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written numerous award-winning books and articles including, most notably, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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Sean Wilentz's Published Works

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Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (1984) (342)
The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2005) (192)
The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (2008) (129)
Against Exceptionalism: Class Consciousness and the American Labor Movement, 1790–1920 (1984) (113)
Rites of power : symbolism, ritual, and politics since the Middle Ages (1986) (79)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America (1997) (28)
Grant (2019) (25)
Don't know much about history (1997) (23)
ON CLASS AND POLITICS IN JACKSONIAN AMERICA (1982) (22)
No Property in Man (2018) (21)
Bob Dylan in America (2010) (19)
The kingdom of Matthias (1995) (17)
Artisan Origins of the American Working Class (1981) (15)
The key of liberty : the life and democratic writings of William Manning, "a laborer," 1747-1814 (1993) (14)
Jeffersonian Democracy and the Origins of Political Antislavery in the United States: The Missouri Crisis Revisited (2004) (14)
The Politics of Hope and The Bitter Heritage: American Liberalism in the 1960s (2007) (13)
Thomas Cole: Landscape into History (1994) (12)
CRIME, Poverty and the Streets of New York City: The Diary of William H. Bell 1850–51 (1979) (8)
The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad (2005) (8)
The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics (2016) (7)
Marketing, Commerce, and Capitalism in Rural Massachusetts (1984) (5)
Conspiracy, power, and the early labor movement: The people v. James Melvin et al, 1811 (1983) (4)
Uses of The Liberal Tradition: Comments on “Still Louis Hartz after All These Years” (2005) (4)
America's lost egalitarian tradition (2002) (4)
A Less Perfect Union (2006) (3)
The Best American History Essays on Lincoln (2009) (3)
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America@@@From Historian to Dissident: The Book of John Whitmer@@@Audacious Women: Early British Mormon Immigrants (1996) (3)
American Political Histories (2007) (3)
Princeton and the Controversies over Slavery (2007) (2)
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding (2018) (2)
Sister President: Ruth J. Simmons (1995) (2)
The 1619 Project and Living in Truth (2021) (2)
Major Problems in the Early Republic, 1787-1848: Documents and Essays (1991) (1)
Alexander Saxton, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America . London: Verso, 1990. x + 397 pp. (1992) (1)
Labor History: Out of Vogue? (1994) (1)
7. Jacksonian Abolitionist: The Conversion of William Leggett (2017) (1)
Whigs and Bankers@@@The Political Culture of the American Whigs. (1980) (1)
Report from the Mid-Atlantic Region (1981) (0)
The Turin Conference on Working-Class Culture (1982) (0)
The Rise of Illiterate Democracy (2005) (0)
Obama: The first 100 days (2008) (0)
Marketing, Commerce, and Capitalism (2016) (0)
Envoi to the Walker (2002) (0)
Slavery and the crisis of American democracy, 1840-1860 (2007) (0)
General Editor’s Introduction (2016) (0)
Clio Banished? Battles over History in the Schools (2019) (0)
Politics, Irony, and the Rise of American Democracy (2006) (0)
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815. By Gordon S. Wood. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xxii, 778 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-19-503914-6.) (2010) (0)
Jonathan A. Glickstein. Concepts of Free Labor in Antebellum America. (Yale Historical Publications.) New Haven: Yale University Press. 1991. Pp. 514. $50.00 (1992) (0)
Frontiers of Change: Early Industrialism in America Thomas C. Cochran (1982) (0)
2. The Bombshell of 1844 (2015) (0)
Thinking Class@@@Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1780-1850 (1985) (0)
Mid-Atlantic Region Report (1982) (0)
Gutman's legacy (1988) (0)
Two Prophets at Kirtland (1995) (0)
The Civil War of 1812by Alan Taylor (2011) (0)
The Radicalism of Northern Abolition (2023) (0)
A Reply to Criticism (1985) (0)
Labor Studies of the Mid-Atlantic Region (1980) (0)
He heard America singing (1998) (0)

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