François Furstenberg

Canadian historian

François Furstenberg

Academic background
Education|

* Columbia University (BA)
* Johns Hopkins University (PhD)

Academic work
Discipline| American history
Institutions|

* Université de Montréal
* Johns Hopkins University

François Furstenberg is a historian. He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University.[1]

## Biography[edit]

Furstenberg was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington. His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander,[2] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist.[3][4] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation.[5] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017.[6][7][8] His uncle is the University of Pennsylvania sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his aunt, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, founded and owned the Chevy Chase bookstore Politics and Prose.[9]

Furstenberg received his B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.[10] His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[11] He has written about the history of slavery in the United States and the history of French émigrés in the United States.[12]

He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2013.[13]

## Works[edit]

* In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation (2006)[14]
* When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees who Shaped a Nation (2014)[15][16][17]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Historian François Furstenberg works on the video game Assassin's Creed III". 2017-10-20. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
2. ^ "Sidney Hollander Dead at 90; Long Active in Social Welfare". The New York Times. 1972-02-24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
3. ^ "Edith Furstenberg, social worker". Baltimore Sun. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
4. ^ "Edith Furstenberg". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
5. ^ "Frank F. Furstenberg, Doctor, 92". The New York Times. 1997-08-08. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
6. ^ Krystal, Becky; Carman, Tim (May 2, 2017). "Bread Furst's Mark Furstenberg wins James Beard Award". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
7. ^ "D.C.'s Mark Furstenberg Named James Beard Outstanding Baker". DCist. Archived from the original on June 30, 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
8. ^ "Our First Clear Failure | breadfurst.com". breadfurst.com. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
9. ^ Parker, Ashley (2010-10-12). "Carla Cohen, Owner of Washington Bookstore, Dies at 74". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
10. ^ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (December 2011). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
11. ^ "François Furstenberg". History. 11 February 2014. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
12. ^ July-Aug 2014, Bret McCabe / Published (2014-07-01). "JHU history professor's book shows how five French expats shaped America". The Hub. Retrieved 2022-06-01.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
13. ^ "When the United States Spoke French: François Furstenberg and Anka Muhlstein". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
14. ^ "Ford Evening Book Talk: François Furstenberg". George Washington's Mount Vernon. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
15. ^ "Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by Francois Furstenberg". Washington Post. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
16. ^ "Socializing, Speculating, and Speaking French in François Furstenberg's Philadelphia". The Junto. 2014-10-08. Retrieved 2017-11-09.
17. ^ "Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by François Furstenberg - Books - The Boston Globe". The Boston Globe. 2014-08-23. Archived from the original on 2014-08-23. Retrieved 2017-11-09.

## External links[edit]

* http://www.oah.org/lectures/lecturers/view/1569
* https://www.c-span.org/person/?francoisfurstenberg
* https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/017/
* http://history.jhu.edu/directory/francois-furstenberg/

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