Department of History

David Glassberg

Professor

Office: Herter 608
Telephone: (413) 545-4252
Fax: (413) 545-6137
E-mail: glassberg@history.umass.edu

Degree: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (1982).
Field(s) of interest: Modern U.S., Public history, Environmental history.

Graduate Courses Offered:
American Environmental History
History and Memory (Not Online)
Modern American Historiography
Museum and Historic Site Interpretation (Not Online)
Public History

Research Interests and Professional Activities
Professor Glassberg's research concerns the history of popular historical consciousness in America as represented in politics, culture, and the environment. Among his publications are American Historical Pageantry: The Uses of Tradition in the Early Twentieth Century (1990), and Sense of History: The Place of the Past in American Life (2001).

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