Paul Mellon Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Cambridge 


Historian of the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States speaking and writing on issues of American politics, political economy, and American peoplehood

Writing archive

"The GOP Is in Trouble But the Left Has Its Work Cut Out" | 2012

Dissent, November 12, 2012

"Iron Horse and Gilded Age" | 2011

A review of Richard White’s Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America, Dissent, Summer 2011. The review has been published in German as “Freie Bahn für Räuberbarone,” Merkur, Summer 2011.

"The GOP in the Age of Obama: Will the Tea Party and Republican Establishment Unite or Fight?" | 2010

New Labor Forum, Fall 2010 (PDF)

"Becoming Americans—U.S. Immigrant Integration" | 2007

Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law, May 16, 2007 (PDF)

"The Neglect of the American Elite" | 2005

(with Steve Fraser), The Chronicle Review, April 1, 2005

"Diversity, Pluralism, and the War on Terror" | 2003

Dissent, Spring 2003 (PDF)

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