Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz (born January 31, 1942) is an American historian and the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of American Studies and History, emerita, at Smith College.

Early life and education Horowitz was born on January 31, 1942, in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Rabbi David Lefkowitz, Jr. and Leona Atlas Lefkowitz. Her last position was at Smith College, where she is currently Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History, emerita. 2000–01 Fellow at Radcliffe Institute 2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist in history for Rereading Sex 2003 Merle Curti Award (Organization of American Historians) for Rereading Sex 2003 Francis Parkman Prize finalist, for Rereading Sex 2010 Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library

Works

Warming up Julia Child (2022). New York: Pegasus Books. Traces of J. B. Jackson: The Man Who Taught Us to See Everyday America (2020). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. A Taste for Provence (2016). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-paper" (2010). Oxford: Oxford University Press. John S. Sargent: Portraits in Praise of Women (with Patricia Hills) (2010). Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum. The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (with Patricia Cline Cohen and Timothy Gilfoyle) (2008). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America: A Brief History with Documents (2006). New York: Palgrave Macmillian. Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (2002). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Landscape in Sight: Looking at America (with John Brinckerhoff Jackson) (1997). New Haven: Yale University Press. Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Haley to Channing Lewis (ed. with Kathy Peiss) (1996). Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (1994). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Campus Life : Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (1987). New York: A. A. Knopf. Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1984). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917 (1976). Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky.