Martin Duberman

Martin Duberman (born August 6, 1930 ) is an American historian, university professor and author. Duberman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Lehman College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York . Duberman was the founder and first chairman of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Graduate School of the City University of New York in 1991 .

Duberman was born in New York City . After finishing school, Duberman studied at Yale University and received a Ph.D. in 1957. in American history. In 1967 Duberman became a full professor at Princeton University . In 1971 he moved from Princeton to the City University of New York.

Duberman is the author of over twenty books, including Paul Robeson and Stonewall . He is also a representative of the neoabolitionist , as expressed in his collection of essays The Antislavery Vanguard .

In 2007 Duberman published a biographical book called The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein .

In 2015 he received the Lambda Literary Award in the LGBT Nonfiction category for Hold Tight Gently .

Works (selection)

• Charles Francis Adams , autobiography, 1961 (for which received the Bancroft Prize)
• In White America , 1963
• James Russell Lowell , 1966 ( National Book Award finalist )
• Payments , 1971
• Elagabalus , 1973
• Male Armor , 1975
• Stonewall , EP Dutton , 1994 (directed by Nigel Finch )
• Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past , 1989 (together with Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr.)
• Paul Robeson , New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 1989
• A Gay Man's Odyssey , autobiographical memoir, 1991
• The Antislavery Vanguard: New Essays on the Abolitionists , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1965
• Midlife Queer: Autobiography of a Decade , 1996
• Left Out: The Politics of Exclusion , 1999
• Haymarket , novel, (2003)
• "The Avenging Angel" (via John Brown ), The Nation , May 23, 2005
• Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS (2014)

Web links

• Martin Bauml Duberman , biography on qlbtq (encyclopedia about LGBT culture)
• ArtsEditor® Review by Duberman "The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein"