Born: 24-Jul-1962
Birthplace: Detroit, MI

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    High School: Brother Rice High School, Bloomfield Township, MI (1980)
    University: Columbia University (1984)
    University: BA, King's College, Cambridge University (1986)
    University: PhD History, Harvard University (1992)
    Professor: History, University of Pennsylvania (1991-2015)
    Professor: History, New York University (2015-)

Author of books:
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (1996, social studies)
Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008, history)
Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race (2010, biography)
These United States: A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present (2015, history)

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