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Dr. Alan Levy
Professor of History
Office:
Spotts World Culture Building 212K
Email:
alan.levy@sru.edu
Phone:
(724) 738-2405
Fax:
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Professor Levy received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his A.B. from
Washington and Jefferson College.
Dr. Levy is the
author nine books including: Musical
Nationalism,
a study of the American composers who came to prominence
amidst the expatriate era of the 1920s; Elite Education
and the Private School, a discussion of the vagaries of
private secondary education at one of the nation's
premier academies; Radical Aesthetics and Music
Criticism, which looks at the
relationship of leftist political ideologies to the
realms of music and aesthetics; Government and the
Arts,
a history of the debates over the subject of the Federal
Government's support for the arts; a biography of the
American composer Edward MacDowell; a biography of the
zany, brilliant baseball player of the early 20th
century, Rube Waddell; and Tackling Jim Crow, a study of the origins, breakdowns, and legacies
of racial segregation in professional football. He has
recently published a biography of Joe McCarthy,
Architect of the Yankee Dynasty, and a bio. of Floyd
Patterson, a Boxer and a Gentleman, a look at the
athletic, personal, and political travails of a
heavyweight champion. He has
also given legislative testimony and made conference
presentations on the subject of academic freedom and its
enemies in modern higher education.
Undergraduate Courses
Twentieth-Century World
Rise of the Modern World
Colonial America to 1825
Nineteenth-Century America
20th-Century America
Civil War and Reconstruction
Russian History: To 1855 and Since 1855
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Outstanding Americans
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Graduate
Courses
Gilded Age and Progressivism
Eighteenth-Century Europe
Russian History, 1855-present |
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