Richard Polenberg
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowship
Office: 136 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6741
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: rp19@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Education
Ph.D. Columbia University, 1964
M.A. Columbia University, 1959
B.A. Brooklyn College, 1958
Courses
| Fall 2008: | On Leave | |
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| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
Co-author, with Walter Lafeber and Nancy Woloch, The American Century: A History of the United States since the 1890s, (6th ed., Armonk: M. E. Sharpe, 2008).
Editor, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Security Clearance Hearing (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002).
Editor, The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000).
The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997; paperback, 1999).
Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, The Supreme Court, and Free Speech (New York: Viking Press, 1987; Penguin Books edition, 1989; Cornell University Press ed., 1999).
Articles
"The Ethical Responsibilities of the Scientist: The Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer, in William Chafe (ed.), The Achievement of American Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 129-159.
"The Right to Have Rights: Citizens, Aliens and the Law in Modern America," in R. Laurence Moore and Maurizio Vaudagna, eds., The American Century in Europe (Cornell University Press, 2003), 262-274.
"Freedom of Speech, The Search for Truth, and the Value of Experimentation," Zmanim, VII (Summer, 1987); reprinted in Arnon Gutfield (ed.), American Democracy: The Real, the Imagined and the False (Ganei-Aviv, Israel, 2002), 330-335.
"On Doing Legal Resesarch at 'America's Library,'" The Green Bag: An Entertaining Journal of Law (Autumn, 2000), 17-22.
"The 'Saintly' Cardozo: Character and the Criminal Law," University of Colorado Law Review (Special Issue, 2000), 1311-1326.
"Benjamin Nathan Cardozo," in American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1998).
"Introduction," The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti (Penguin Books, 1997), ix-xlvii.
Awards
Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, 1979
American Bar Association, Silver Gavel Award, 1987