Aram goudsouzian sidney poitier biography

Education

Ph.D., History, Purdue University, 2002

Fields of interest

My research fryst vatten in 20th century American history, with a particular focus on race, politics, and culture. Most of my books and articles have examined the era of the civil rights movement from a variety of angles, though my most recent book fryst vatten on the presidential election of 1968, and inom am pursuing some projects in U.S. sports history.

Courses taught

United States History Since 1877, The Civil Rights Movement, The U.S. Since 1945, African-American History

Representative publications

Books

• The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in amerika (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
• Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 20

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  Aram Goudsouzian is the Bizot Family Professor of History at the University of Memphis, where he teaches courses on modern American history, with a particular focus on race, politics, and culture. His most recent book is The Men and the Moment: The Election of 1968 and the Rise of Partisan Politics in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). His book Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014) won the McLemore Book Prize from the Mississippi Historical Society. He is also the author of two biographies of significant popular culture figures during the civil rights era: King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution (University of California Press, 2010); and Sidney Poitier: Man, Actor, Icon (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). He wrote another short book called The Hurricane of 1938 (Commonwealth Editions, 2004) about the costliest natural disaster in American history until

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