Van Gosse is professor of history emeritus at Franklin & Marshall College. His research interests began with re-thinking the American New Left as a “movement of movements,” leading to numerous books and articles, including Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of a New Left (Verso, 1993). More recently, his research has focused on African American politics, leading to The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2021), and he also publishes widely outside the academy in venues like The Nation. He has served on the Editorial Collective of the Radical History Review since 1990, including seven years as chair, and held many leadership positions at Franklin & Marshall. With an interest in connections between Ireland and the US, he was a Fulbright lecturer at University College Cork, and later held a fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Finally, as a founder of Historians Against the War in 2003, and co-chair of its successor, Historians for Peace and Democracy since 2017, he is deeply committed to the right and responsibility of historians to speak out on fundamental public issues.
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