Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown is an American social historian, and former Executive Director, of the American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning, at Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

He graduated from City College of New York magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1975, from Columbia University with an M.A. in American History in 1976, and a Master of Philosophy in American History in 1978, and with a Ph.D. in 1993.

Awards 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works History from South Africa: alternative visions and practices, Editor Joshua Brown, Temple University Press, 1991, Who Built America? Volume 1: To 1877; Working People and the Nation's History, Authors Christopher Clark, American Social History Project, Nancy Hewitt, Joshua Brown, David Jaffee, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction, Authors Eric Foner, Joshua Brown, Random House, Inc., 2006, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, University of California Press, 2006,