| Ph.D., Columbia University
Academic Affiliation: Professor, The Graduate Center;
Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center
for Media and Learning, The Graduate Center
Office phone: 212-817-1970
E-Mail:jbrown@gc.cuny.edu
Website: http://www.joshbrownnyc.com
Fall 2007: Hist.
75400-Visual Culture in U.S. History, 1776-1976
Tuesday, 4:15-6:15 p.m., 3 credits
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| 19th Century U.S. Social
and Cultural History; Visual Culture; New Media
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| "The
Great Uprising and the Collapse of Pictorial Order
in Gilded Age America," in The Great Strike
of 1877: New Perspectives, ed. David Stowell
(University of Illinois Press, 2008).
My Mimeographed Career; Part One: 1968, autobiographical
comic strip in Students for a Democratic Society:
A Comic History, ed. Paul Buhle (Hill and Wang,
2008).
"Historians and Photography," in symposium
on "Histories of Photography," American
Art (Fall 2007).
"The Graphic Fight: New York Political Cartoonists
and the Spanish Civil War," in Fighting Fascism:
New York City and the Spanish Civil War, eds.
Peter Carroll and James Fernandez (New York: Museum
of the City of New York/NYU Press, 2007), catalog
accompanying Museum of the City of New York exhibition.
Co-editor (with Georgia Barnhill and Ian Gordon),
"Revolution
in Print: Graphics in Nineteenth Century America,"
special issue of Common-place: The Interactive
Journal of Early American Life 7:3 (April 2007).
(Visual essays), Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation
and Reconstruction, Eric Foner principal author
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2005).
Participant, "Interchange:
Genres of History," Journal of American
History, 91:2 (September 2004).
"From
the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies
and Interaction in the 19th and 21st Centuries"
and "Commentary: Random Thoughts while on a Virtual
Stroll . . .," Rethinking History,
8:2 (June 2004).
Co-editor, special issue on "A
Cabinet of Curiosities," Common-place:
The Interactive Journal of Early American Life,
4:2 (January 2004).
"'The
Social and Sensational News of the Day': Frank Leslie,
The Days' Doings, and Scandalous Pictorial
News in Gilded Age New York," New-York
Journal of American History, 66:2 (Fall 2003).
"Toward
a Meeting of the Minds: Historians and Art Historians,"
American Art, 17:2 (Summer 2003).
"The Bloody Sixth: The Real Gangs of New York,"
London Review of Books, 25:2 (January 23, 2003).
Guest curator, City on Display: A Newark Photographer
and His Clients, 1890s-1940s, New Jersey Historical
Society exhibition (October 8, 2003 opening).
Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday
Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (University
of California Press, 2002). Published also in electronic
format as part of the American Council of Learned
Societies' History E-Book Project.
Author/art, The
Hungry Eye [serialization of an illustrated
novel about 19th century New York], Common-place:
The Interactive Journal of Early American Life,
2 (January-April 2002).
Co-author, Who Built America? From the Great War
of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age, interactive
CD-ROM (Worth Publishers/Learn Technologies Interactive,
2000).
Visual editor, Who Built America? Working People
and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society
(1st Edition: Pantheon, 1989, 1992; 2nd Edition: Worth
Publishers, 2000; 3rd Edition: Bedford Books, 2007).
Co-executive producer/co-writer, The
Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum Life and Culture,
website 3-D re-creation and archive of P. T. Barnum's
American Museum.
Co-principal investigator, The
September 11 Digital Archive, website devoted
to collecting and preserving the digital record of
the attacks and their aftermath (donated to Library
of Congress).
Co-executive producer/creative director, History
Matters: The U.S. History Survey on the Web,
website on teaching US history.
Work in Progress:
(with
Peter N. Carroll), Robeson in Spain, eight-part
graphic history in The Volunteer, publication
of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, beginning
October 2007.
"Political Cartoons," in Princeton Encyclopedia
of United States Political History, ed. Michael
Kazin (Princeton University Press).
The Art of War: 200 Years of Unofficial and Personal
Views of Combat, a study of "unsanctioned"
soldier art from 1776 to 1976.
Principal investigator, Young America: Experiences
of Youth in U.S. History, website focusing on
perspectives and experiences of children and youth
in U.S. history survey.
Principal investigator, Picturing United States
History: An Online Resource for Teaching with Visual
Evidence, a gateway website demonstrating how
the visual record illuminates the U.S. past.
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