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Benjamin Holtzman

Biography

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Academic Interests 

Modern United States, Urban History

Research

I study the intersection of political and social history in the United States, with particular focus on politics, capitalism, race and class, cities, and social movements. My first book, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism, was published by Oxford University Press. It uses the sweeping transformation of post-1960s New York City to trace how market-oriented policies have come to proliferate across American life over the past five decades. My research has appeared in Modern American History, the Journal of Social History, the Journal of Urban History, and several edited collections. I am currently working on my second book, “Smash the Klan”: Fighting the White Power Movement in the Late Twentieth Century. I teach courses on New York history, social movements and political change, and twentieth- and twenty-first century U.S. history. You can learn about me and my work here.

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