Robert Alan Goldberg (born August 16, 1949) is an American historian. He teaches at the University of Utah and has written several books as well as articles and papers. He has written about social movements, conspiracies, Barry Goldwater, and Jewish farmers in Clarion, Utah and the American West.
Goldberg was born in New York City on August 16, 1949. He studied history at Arizona State University, and completed a doctorate in history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He began teaching in 1977 as an assistant history professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. The University of Utah, where he has taught since 1980, has a collection of his papers.
In 2019, he sought the removal of a swastika from a gravemarker in Utah of a German POW.
Elliott West described his book on the rise and fall of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado as sophisticated and well written, noting it uses case studies to cover the subject. Publishers Weekly described his book on Barry Goldwater as well balanced and solid. A review in the Great Plains Quarterly describes his book on the Colorado Klan as an interesting profile with fascinating detail.
Bibliography
- Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America, Yale University Press (2001)
- American views : documents in American history (1998)
- Barry Goldwater, Yale University Press (1995)
- Grassroots Resistance: Social Movements in Twentieth Century America (1991)
- Back to the Soil: The Jewish Farmers of Clarion, Utah, and Their World (1986)
- Shooting in the dark : recovering the Jewish farmers of an American Zion (1983)
- Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado (1977)
References
- Goldberg, Robert Alan (January 1, 2005). "Pathways to Prohibition: Radicals, Moderates, and Social Movement Outcomes". Contemporary Sociology. 34 (1): 45–46. doi:10.1177/009430610503400129. S2CID 152087016.
- Goldberg, Robert Alan (October 1, 2008). Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300132946 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Goldberg, Robert Alan 1949- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
- "Robert A. Goldberg". Retrieved June 15, 2020.
- "Archives West: Robert Alan Goldberg papers, 1880-2019". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- "Robert A. Goldberg: A symbol of hate sits in our own backyard". The Salt Lake Tribune.
- West, Elliot (October 1982). "Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. By Robert Alan Goldberg. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1981. Pp. Xv + 255. $13.50". Business History Review. 56 (3): 451–452. doi:10.2307/3114652. JSTOR 3114652. S2CID 153337203.
- "Nonfiction Book Review: Barry Goldwater by Robert Alan Goldberg, Author Yale University Press $24 (478p) ISBN 978-0-300-06261-8". PublishersWeekly.com.
- Larson, Robert (January 1, 1983). "Review of Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado By Robert Alan Goldberg". Great Plains Quarterly.
- "Enemies Within | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu.
- "Goldberg, Robert Alan 1949- [WorldCat Identities]".
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Historians from New York (state)
- 20th-century American historians
- American male non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American historians
- 20th-century American male writers
- Writers from New York City
- University of Utah faculty
- 21st-century American male writers
- University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
- University of Texas at San Antonio faculty