Maurice Isserman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maurice Isserman

professor, historian

Date of Birth: 12-Mar-1951

Place of Birth: Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Profession: historian, biographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Maurice Isserman (born 1951), formerly William R.
Kenan and the James L.
Ferguson chairs, is a long-time Professor of History at Hamilton College and important contributor to the "new history of American communism" that reinterpreted the role of the Communist Party USA during the Popular Front period of the 1930s and 1940s.
His books have also traced the emergence of the New Left and the 1960s.
He co-authored a biography of Dorothy Ray Healey and wrote an award-winning biography of the American socialist leader Michael Harrington.
Recently, he refocused his work on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas and the United States.
He has contributed editorials and book reviews to The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Newsday, the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, and The American Alpine Review.