Thomas Bender

University of California Davis, PhD 1971

U.S. intellectual and cultural history, 1750-present; intellectuals and cities; transnational and global approaches to U.S. history; historiography.

To see the lecture topics I offer for the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Speakers Program, click on this link: http://lectures.oah.org/lecturers/lecturer.html?id=49.

Frederick Jackson Turner Prize of the Organization of American Historians for his book, Toward an Urban Vision (1975), Guggenheim Fellow, Rockefeller Humanities Fellow, Getty Scholar, Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and Bogliasco Foundation Fellow. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1994.

Books:

A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (New York:FSG/Hill & Wang, 2006; Paper edition, 2006)

 

 

 

 

Co-author (with Colin Palmer and Philip Katz), The Education of Historians in the 21^st  Century (Urbana: University of  Illinois Press, 2004)

 

 

 

 

Editor, Rethinking American History in a Global Age (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002; Paper edition, 2002)

The Unfinished City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (New York: The New Press, 2002; Paper edition, NYU Press, 2007)

 

 

 

Intellect and Public Life: Essays on the Social History of Academic Intellectuals in the United States (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993; Paper edition, 1997)

 

 

Editor, The Anti-Slavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992; Paper edition, 1992)

 

 

New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987; Paper edition: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988)

 

 

Editor, The University and the City: From Medieval Origins to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988; Paper edition, 1989)

Community and Social Change in America (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1978; Paper edition: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 1986, 1991)

 

 

 

 

 

Toward an Urban Vision (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1978; Paper edition: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)

 

 Articles:

“Wholes and Parts:  The Need for Synthesis in American History,” Journal of American History, 73 (1986), 120-36.

“Intellectual and Cultural History,” in Eric Foner, ed. The New American History (2nd ed., 1997), 181-202.

“Politics, Intellect, and the American University, 1945-1995,” Daedalus (Winter, 1997), 1-38.

“Cities, Intellectuals, and Citizenship,” Citizenship Studies, 3 1999), 203-30.

“Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American Historical Review, 107 (2002), 129-53.

“Writing American History, 1789-1945,” in Stuart Macintyre, et. al., eds. The Oxford History of Historical Writing, 1800-1945 (Vol. IV; 2011), 369-89.