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

19th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History; Visual Culture; New Media

"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.