Expertise

Dissent and Protest Movements in America, History, Social History, Recent U.S. History

Teaching Interests:

Dissent in America
Protest Music
Cold War Culture
Global Terrorism

Current Research:

Protest Music of the Cold War 

Representative Publications:

• American Patriots: A Short History of Dissent, New York: New York University Press, 2024.
• ​​​​Make Art Not War: Political Protest Posters from the Twentieth Century, New York: New York University Press, 2016. (Named one of the five best art books of 2016.)
• Dissent: The History of an American Idea, New York: New York University Press, 2015. Finalist for the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.
• Dissent in America: The Voices That Shaped a Nation, New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Education:

B.A. 1964, Houghton College
M.A. 1967, Michigan State University
Ph.D. 1971, Michigan State University

Previous Appointments:

1974-1978 Bremen Universität, Lehrbeauftragter
1997-2000 Widener University, Adjunct​​​​​
1996-2000 Penn State University, Adjunct