Lawrence B. Glickman
Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies
Overview
Lawrence Glickman is the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies in the Department of History. He is the author or editor of five books, including Free Enterprise: An American History (2019) and Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (2009). He also writes on public affairs for the Washington Post, Boston Review, Dissent, and other periodicals. At Cornell, he teaches a popular course on “Sports and Politics in American History” and a variety of lecture and seminar courses on political, cultural, and intellectual history and he is a core faculty member in the History of Capitalism Initiative.
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