Alan Dawley

Alan Dawley (December 18, 1943^[1] – March 12, 2008) was a professor of history at The College of New Jersey.

Dawley was a 1965 graduate of Oberlin College, and completed his M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1971) at Harvard University.^[1] He then joined the faculty of The College of New Jersey.

He received the Bancroft Prize in 1977 for his book Class and Community.^[2]

He wrote mainly on the US Progressive Era. He died in Mexico on March 12, 2008, of a heart attack.^[3]

• Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn. (Harvard University Press, 1976) Winner of the Bancroft Prize.
• Working for Democracy: American Workers from the Revolution to the Present. (co-editor with Paul Buhle) (University of Illinois Press, 1985)
• Struggles for Justice: Social Responsibility and the Liberal State. (Harvard University Press, 1991)
• Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution, 1914-1924. (Princeton University Press, 2003)

• Dawley's Home Page where you can find a complete (as of 2003) bibliography.
• Dawley's Page at the TCNJ History Dept.