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Theodore Rosengarten

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American[1] b. 17 December 1944, Brooklyn, New York, USA[1,2] active 1966–2025

Theodore Rosengarten is an American historian and writer whose work focuses on the lives of slaves and freedmen in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He earned a BA in American Studies from Amherst College in 1966 and a PhD in history from Harvard University. He is best known for his oral history research and field studies, most notably 'All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw' (1974), which won the National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs in 1976.[1,3,4,5]

  • Slavery
  • Oral history
  • Southern history
  • African American history
  • Jewish life

Books

  1. John Mc Williams Land of deepest shade 1559
    Land of deepest shade
    John Mc Williams
    €75.00

Works by Theodore Rosengarten

  • 1974 All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw A.A. Knopf · book · English An oral history of an Alabama tenant farmer.
  • Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter book
  • A Portion of People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life book Edited by Theodore Rosengarten.
  • 1989 Land of Deepest Shade Aperture / High Museum of Art · book · English · ISBN 0893813933 Text by Theodore Rosengarten, photographs by John McWilliams.

Awards

  • 1976 National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs National Book Foundation
  • 1989 MacArthur Fellowship MacArthur Foundation

References

  1. Wikipedia link
  2. Charleston Library Society. Charleston Library Society link
  3. Penguin Random House. Penguin Random House link
  4. Mark I. Pinsky Blog link
  5. National Book Foundation. National Book Foundation. 1976 link