Levy, Peter B. 1956-

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LEVY, Peter B. 1956-

PERSONAL: Born May 11, 1956, in Burlingame, CA; son of Allan (a psychiatrist) and Phyllis (Kulick) Levy; married Diane Krejsa, August 19, 1984; children: Jessica, Brian. Education: University of California—Berkeley, B.A., 1978; Columbia University, M.A., 1980, Ph.D., 1986.

ADDRESSES: Home—1214 Temfield Rd., Towson, MD 21286. Office—Department of History, York College, York, PA 17405. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER: Rutgers University, Newark Campus, Newark, NJ, visiting assistant professor of history, 1986-88; York College, York, PA, associate professor of history, 1989—.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement, Praeger (New York, NY), 1992.

The New Left and Labor in the 1960s, University of Illinois Press (Champaign, IL), 1994.

(Editor) One Hundred Key Documents in American Democracy, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1994.

Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1996.

The Civil Rights Movement, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1998.

America in the Sixties: Right, Left, and Center, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 1998.

Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency, Greenwood Press (Westport, CT), 2002.

Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, University Press of Florida (Gainesville, FL), 2003.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

American Reference Books Annual, 1999, review of The Civil Rights Movement, p. 193.

Booklist, July, 2002, review of Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency, p. 1877.

Library Journal, May 15, 2002, Michael Genovese, review of Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency, pp. 84, 86.

Reference and Research Book News, May, 1999, review of America in the Sixties: Right, Left, and Center, p. 53.*

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