Robert H. deduction

Robert Henry Abzug (born May 2, 1945 in New York ) is an American historian .

Life

Deduction studied at Harvard University ( BA 1967) and his doctorate in 1977 with a thesis on the abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld at the University of California, Berkeley for Ph.D. Since 1978 he has taught history at the University of Texas at Austin . Much of his work traces the development of social ethical norms in American history; His research interests include the history of reform movements such as the abstinence movement and abolitionism, the perception of the Holocaust in the United States, and the history of the Jews in the United States in general . Since 2007 he has been director of the newly founded Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Fonts

• Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform . Oxford University Press, New York 1980, ISBN 019502771X .
• Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps . Oxford University Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0195035976 .
• (Ed. With Stephen E. Maizlish): New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington KY 1986, ISBN 081311571X .
• Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination . Oxford University Press, New York 1994, ISBN 0195037529 .
• America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History . Bedford / St. Martin's, Boston 1999, ISBN 0312218192 .
• (Ed.): William James : Varieties of Religious Experience . Critical, annotated and abridged edition. Bedford / St. Martin's, Boston 2012, ISBN 9780312488307 .

Web links

• Robert H. Deduction profile on the University of Texas at Austin pages