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Dr Joshua Zeitz
Research Interests
Joshua Zeitz earned his B.A. at Swarthmore College and his A.M. and Ph.D.
in American history at Brown University. He is completing revisions on his
first book, White Ethnic New York: Religion, Ethnicity and Political
Culture in Post-War Gotham, 1945-1970 and is in the preliminary stages of
two major research projects.
The first is a reinterpretation of the American "rights revolution," from
1900 to present, which considers how the American public's sense of
personal and political entitlement has grown in response to diverse
cultural and social trends in the twentieth century. The project traces the
development of modern America's uniquely individualistic " rather than
communitarian " notion of political entitlement and draws connections
between social and economic trends and the rhetoric and strategies of
various political rights movements in the twentieth century, including but
not limited to the black civil rights movement.
In addition to this project, Zeitz recently signed a contract with Crown (a
division of Random House) to write a history of sexual politics in the
1920s. The book will use the figure of the "New Woman" to examine the
convergence in the 1920s of several longterm trends, including a
liberalization of sex and romance, the advent of consumer and leisure
culture, the cult of celebrity and rise of modern media elites, the
maturation of marketing and advertising, and - most importantly - the
development of a new "rights" discourse that came gradually to influence
public debates.
Academic Publications
- White Ethnic New York: Religion, Ethnicity and Political Culture, 1945-1970
(under review)
- 'Communist! Fascist! American Catholics & Jews Fight the Cold War,
1935-1955,' Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 21 (forthcoming)
- 'The Missouri Compromise Reconsidered: Antislavery Rhetoric and the
Emergence of the Free Labor Synthesis,' Journal of the Early Republic, 20:3
(Fall 2000), 447-485.
- '"If I Am Not For Myself": The American Jewish Establishment in the
Aftermath of the Six Day War,' American Jewish History, 88:2 (June 2000),
253-286.
- 'The Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson,' in Jonathan Birnbaum and
Clarence Taylor, eds., Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader on the Black
Struggle (New York: New York University Press, 2000), 154-160.
- 'Thaddeus Stevens,' in American National Biography (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999), Vol. 19, 711-714.
Other Publications
- 'The Big Lie About the Little Pill,' New York Times, December 27, 2003.
- 'Disunited Nations,' American Heritage Magazine, August/September 2003.
- 'The Fall (and Potential Rise) of Liberalism,' L.A. Times, December 22,
2002, M2.
- 'Dixie's Victory,' American Heritage Magazine, September 2002, 46-55.
- 'Orson Welles's Voodoo Macbeth,' American Legacy Magazine, Fall 2002, 68-76.
- 'Are Our Liberties in Peril?' American Heritage Magazine, November/December
2001, 34-37.
- 'Back to the Barricades,' American Heritage Magazine, October 2001, 70-75.
- 'Still Bearing the Southern Cross,' Washington Post, April 22, 2001, B1, B4
(Outlook Section).
- 'Rebel Redemption Redux,' Dissent (Winter 2001), cover 30-37.
- 'And He Said What He Meant: Dr. Seuss Was a Lefty, 100 Percent,' Jewish
Daily Forward, December 1, 2000, cover.
- 'Impeach Andrew Johnson!' The New Republic, January 18, 1999, cover, 13-15.
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