Biography
Allen Matusow, Ph.D., is a Rice emeritus faculty scholar at the Baker Institute and the William Gaines Twyman Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. He joined the Rice faculty in 1963 and served as the dean of humanities from 1981 to 1995. He specializes in 20th-century U.S. history and has written or edited five books, including “The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s” (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and “Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars and Votes” (University Press of Kansas, 1998), and is currently writing a book on the origins of Jewish and Arab nationalism. Matusow served on the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s advisory board from 2011 until 2021. He received his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University in 1963.
Contact at [email protected] or 713-348-5275.
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Books
- The Unraveling Of America - A History of Liberalism in the 1960s, by Allen J. Matusow, December 1, 2010
- Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes, by Allen J. Matusow, April 1998
- Great Lives Observed: Joseph R. McCarthy, edited by Allen J. Matusow, January 1, 1970.
- Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations, edited by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow, June 1, 1972.
- Farm Policies & Politics in the Truman Years, by Allen J. Matusow, January 1, 1970.
- Truman Administration: Documentary History, edited by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow, November 1, 1969
External Publications
- “Nixon’s Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy” (Book Review), Journal of Southern History, August 31, 2003.
- “Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now” (Book Review), The Historian, September 3, 2005