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Description
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy. An historian by training, he has specialized in the excavation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His 1986 book, Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts, was awarded three scholarly prizes. His book, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. A significantly revised and updated edition of The Right to Vote was published in 2009. Keyssar is coauthor of The Way of the Ship: America's Maritime History Reenvisioned, 1600-2000 (2008), and of Inventing America, a text integrating the history of technology and science into the mainstream of American history. In addition, he is coeditor of a series on Comparative and International Working-Class History. In 2004/5, Keyssar chaired the Social Science Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections, and writes frequently for the popular press about American politics and history. Keyssar's current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.
Lectures:
debate![]() as author at To Keep or Not to Keep the Electoral College: MIT World Series: New Approaches to Electoral Reform, together with: Alexander S. Belenky (moderator), Judith Best, Robert Bennett, Robert Hardaway, John Fortier, Akhil Amar, Vikram Amar, Paul Schumaker, Arnold I. Barnett, Alan Natapoff, David Hawking, 3252 views |
debate![]() as author at To Keep or Not to Keep the Electoral College: MIT World Series: New Approaches to Electoral Reform, together with: Arnold I. Barnett (moderator), Judith Best, Robert Hardaway, Robert Bennett, Paul Schumaker, Akhil Amar, John Fortier, Alan Natapoff, Alexander S. Belenky, Vikram Amar, 2957 views |
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debate![]() as author at To Keep or Not to Keep the Electoral College: MIT World Series: New Approaches to Electoral Reform, together with: Akhil Amar, Vikram Amar, Robert Bennett, Paul Schumaker, 2801 views |