Academic Background: PhD in History, Columbia University; BA, Harvard University.
Research Interests: American economic history, social history, and the Gilded Age.
Appointments: Professor of History, NYU Department of History.
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History (1965) for The Greenback Era.
Publications: Author, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance (Princeton University Press, 1964).
Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to historical documentaries.