In 1998, after moving to the right in his thinking, Genovese founded The Historical Society, with the goal of bringing together historians united by a traditional methodology. Defeating Oscar Handlin in 1978, he was elected as the first Marxist president of the Organization of American Historians. He was famous for his disputes with colleagues left, right and center. He was an editor of Studies on the Left and Marxist Perspectives. During the early years of the Vietnam War, when there were a growing range of opinions about the war and the Civil Rights Movement, he was a controversial figure as a history professor at Rutgers University (1963–67), and at the University of Rochester (1969–86), where he was elected chairman of the Department of History.įrom 1986, Genovese taught part-time at the College of William and Mary, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Emory University and Georgia State University. Genovese first taught at Brooklyn's Polytechnic Institute from 1958 to 1963. in history in 1959, both from Columbia University. Raised in a working-class Italian American family in Brooklyn, he was active in the Communist youth movement until he was expelled "for having zigged when was supposed to zag." He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1953 and his Master of Arts in 1955 and a Ph.D.
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