Edward Pessen
Edward Pessen was an American historian.
Life
Edward Pessen was born to a working-class Jewish immigrant family in New York City. After army service Pessen completed undergraduate education and gained a PhD from Columbia University. He taught at several universities, ending as professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York before retiring to south Florida where he taught his final class, a senior seminar on the Cold War, as an adjunct professor at Florida International University. He was a founder of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and was the society's president in 1985–6.
Works
The social philosophies of early American leaders of labor, 1954Most uncommon Jacksonians: the radical leaders of the early labor movement, 1967New perspectives on Jacksonian parties and politics, 1969Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics, 1969Riches, class, and power before the Civil War, 1973Three centuries of social mobility in America, 1974Jacksonian panorama, 1976The Many-faceted Jacksonian era: new interpretations, 1977The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents, 1984