Nancy Isenberg

Nancy Gale Isenberg (born around 1958 ) is an American historian .

Life

Isenberg studied history at Rutgers University , where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1980 , and at the University of Wisconsin , where she earned a Master of Arts in 1983 and received her PhD in American history in 1990. Isenberg was an Assistant Professor at the University of Northern Iowa and holds the T. Harry Williams Professorship at Louisiana State University . She wrote a biography about the American founding father Aaron Burr , in which she paints a counter-image to the portrayal of Burr as a dubious villain, which has prevailed for almost 200 years, and also wants to dispel the worship of saints by other founding fathers, especially Burr's rivals Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson . Her study on the history of the white American lower class, White Trash , was quoted in reports on the 2016 American presidential election campaign .

Fonts

• "Co-equality of the Sexes": The Feminist Discourse of the Antebellum Women's Rights Movement in America . Dissertation. University of Wisconsin , Madison 1990.
• Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America . University of North Carolina Press , Chapel Hill / London 1998, ISBN 0-8078-2442-9 .
• with Andrew Burstein (Ed.): Mortal Remains: Death in Early America . University of Pennsylvania Press , Philadelphia 2003, ISBN 0-8122-1823-X .
• Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr . Viking Penguin , New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-670-06352-9 .
• with Andrew Burstein: Madison and Jefferson . Random House , New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4000-6728-2 .
• White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America . Viking, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-670-78597-1 .
• with Andrew Burstein: The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality . Viking, New York 2019, ISBN 978-0-525-55750-0 .

literature

• Matthias Kolb: America insults and despises its poor . Interview, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 10, 2016
• Thomas J. Sugrue : A Look at America's Long and Troubled History of White Poverty . Review, in: The New York Times , June 24, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Nancy Isenberg in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Nancy Isenberg's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nancy Isenberg , at NNDB
2. ↑ Nancy Isenberg ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at Louisiana State University 
3. ↑ Andrea Köhler: With the Wut der Desperflung , in: NZZ , 24 September 2016, p. 21