Professors Emeriti

Joshua B. Freeman

US Labor History, New York City

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-Y
Phone: 718-997-5047
jfreeman@gc.cuny.edu

Joshua B. Freeman is Distinguished Professor of History at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is associated with its Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. Professor Freeman received a BA from Harvard University and MA and PhD degrees from Rutgers University. He previously taught at Columbia University and the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He has written extensively about the history of labor, modern America, and New York City. His books include American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 (Viking, 2012), Working-Class New York: Life and Labor since World War II (New Press, 2000) and In Transit: The Transport Workers Union in New York City, 1933-1966 (Oxford University Press, 1989; reprinted with Temple University Press, 2001). With Steve Fraser he co-edited Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Renewal of America (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), and he co-authored with a team of scholars Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture and Society, volume 2 (Pantheon Books, 1992). He has written articles and book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, and The Nation and served as co-editor of the journal International Labor and Working-Class History. Professor Freeman has appeared in a number of television documentaries, including Ric Burns’s New York: A Documentary Film.

Edgar J. McManus

US Constitutional History, Slavery, New York, Bill of Rights

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352-F
Phone: 718-997-5363
edgar.mcmanus@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Edgar McManus earned a PhD from Columbia University. He is the author of A History of Negro Slavery in New York (Syracuse University Press, 1966), Black Bondage in the North (Syracuse University Press, 1973) and Law and Liberty in Early New England: Criminal Justice and Due Process, 1620-92 (University of Massachusetts, 1993). He also co-authored Liberty and Union: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volume 1 (Routledge).

Mark W. Rosenblum

Modern Middle East, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Conflict Resolution

mark.rosenblum@qc.cuny.edu

Mark W. Rosenblum is Associate Professor Emeritus of History. He served as Director of the Michael Harrington Center and was also Director of the Center for Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Understanding. The author of numerous scholarly and popular articles on his field of expertise, the Middle East, Professor Rosenblum has appeared as a Middle East analyst on CNN, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. He has met with virtually all the major players in the region, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, King Abdullah II, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. His project, The Middle East and America: Clash of Civilizations or Meeting of Minds, seeks modes of reconciliation for all interested in the Middle East, and recently won a major Ford Foundation grant. He was also one of two winners of an award in the field of Religion, Conflict, and Reconciliation by the Clinton Global Initiative. In 1999 the Forward newspaper named Professor Rosenblum as one of the 50 most influential American Jews, and in 2003 he received the Queens College President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Donald M. Scott

18th- and 19th-Century United States

Powdermaker Hall, Room 352
donald.scott@qc.cuny.edu

Professor Donald Scott earned his PhD in history at the University of Wisconsin. Among his books are The Myth-Making Frame of Mind: Essays in American Culture (Wadsworth, 1992), edited with James Gilbert, Amy Gilmore & Joan W. Scott; In Pursuit of Liberty (Random House, 1983) with R.J. Wilson, James Gilbert, and Steven Nissenbaum, and Karen Kuperman; and America’s Families: A Documentary History (Harper & Row, 1981) with Bernard W. Wishy.