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Nancy Isenberg

Jewish American historian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Nancy G. Isenberg (born 1958) is an American historian and T. Harry Williams Professor of history at Louisiana State University.

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Life

She graduated from Rutgers University, and University of Wisconsin.[1] In 2017, she wrote the book White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.

Awards

  • 1999, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) book prize for Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America[1]
  • 2003, First Union International Fellowship, International Center for Jefferson Studies[1]
  • 2003-2004 and 2007–2008, Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society[1]
  • 2008, Award for best non-fiction book for Fallen Founder, Oklahoma Center for the Book[1]
  • 2008, Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography[1]
  • 2016, shared with Lyra Monteiro, Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award, Before Columbus Foundation[1][2]
  • 2016, #4 on Politico Magazine's Annual List of the “50 Most important Thinkers”[1]
  • 2017, LSU Distinguished Research Master Award[1]
  • 2017, Finalist for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Columbia School of Journalism and Nieman Foundation at Harvard University[1]
  • 2017, PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for White Trash
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Works

  • Andrew Burstein; Nancy Isenberg (15 January 2013). Madison and Jefferson. Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-8129-7900-8.
  • Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr. Viking. 2007. ISBN 978-0-670-06352-9.
  • Nancy Isenberg; Andrew Burstein (5 July 2012). Mortal Remains: Death in Early America. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-0806-1.
  • Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Univ of North Carolina Press. 9 November 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-6683-2.
  • White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America. Penguin Publishing Group. 21 June 2016. ISBN 978-1-101-60848-7.[3][4][5][6]
  • Andrew Burstein; Nancy Isenberg (2019). The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality. Viking. ISBN 978-0-5255-5750-0.

References

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