Alan Brinkley
Professor of History
Columbia University
at time of fellowship
1996 to 1997
Alan Brinkley, professor of history at Columbia University, conducted research for a major biography of Henry Luce of Time Inc., whose magazines, especially Time and Life, helped shape a dramatic transformation in the character of the American middle-class life and culture. He also completed a collection of his essays on the history of liberalism in the middle and late twentieth century, which is to be published by Harvard University Press.