Alan Dawley was a professor of history at The College of New Jersey

The College of New Jersey

The College of New Jersey, abbreviated TCNJ, is a public, coeducational university located in Ewing Township, New Jersey, a suburb of Trenton....

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Dawley was a 1965 graduate of Oberlin College

Oberlin College

Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...

, and completed his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) at Harvard University

Harvard University

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. He then joined the faculty of The College of New Jersey.

He received the Bancroft Prize

Bancroft Prize

The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...

 in 1977 for his book Class and Community.

He wrote mainly on the US Progressive Era

Progressive Era

The Progressive Era in the United States was a period of social activism and political reform that flourished from the 1890s to the 1920s. One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political...

. He died in Mexico on March 12, 2008 of a heart attack.

Selected bibliography

• and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. (Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P...
  
  , 1976) Winner of the Bancroft Prize.
• Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present. (co-editor with Paul Buhle) (University of Illinois Press, 1985)
• Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. (Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press
  Harvard University Press is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. In 2005, it published 220 new titles. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Its current director is William P...
  
  , 1991)
• Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, 1914-1924. (Princeton University Press, 2003)

External links

• Dawley's Home Page where you can find a complete (as of 2003) bibliography.
• Dawley's Page at the TCNJ History Dept.