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Darren Staloff
Darren Staloff is Professor of History at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Professor Staloff has published numerous papers and reviews on the subject of early American history and is the author of The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts () and Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding().
He has recorded dozens of audio and video tapes (nationally distributed) on U.S. and world history and major philosophers. He has received many fellowships, including The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University as well as an NEH grant and a post-doctoral fellowship from the Omahundro Institute of Early American History and Culture. He earned his B.A. from Columbia College and his M.A., , and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
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Staloff, Darren –
PERSONAL: Born Education: Columbia College, B.A.; Columbia University, M.A., , Ph.D.
ADDRESSES: Office—City College of New York, Department of History, th St. & Convent Ave., New York, NY E-mail—[email&#;protected].
CAREER: Educator, historian, and writer. City College of New York and Graduate Center of the City University of New York, associate professor of history. Postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, VA.
WRITINGS:
The Search for a Meaningful Past (recorded lectures), Teaching Company (Springfield, VA),
(With others) The History of the United States (recorded lectures), Teaching Company (Springfield, VA),
(With Michael Sugrue) Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition, (recorded lectures), Teaching Company (Springfield, VA),
The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts, Oxford University Press (New York, NY),
Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding, Hill & Wang (New York, NY),
SIDELIGHTS: Darren Staloff is an expert in early American history. In his book The Making of an American Thinking Class: Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts, St