Lizabeth Cohen

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts ~Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and; Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies, Dept. of History. Leading figure in U.S. urban history. Book Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago (1990) is an essential text for those studying or teaching modern U.S. history. Joining urban, labor, and immigration history, Making a New Deal details how the decline of Chicago's ethnically based communities in the 1920s and 1930s opened the way for the pan-ethnic organizing drives of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the popular politics of the New Deal. Second book, A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003), traces the politics of post-World War II consumption from the G.I. Bill through the political fragmentation of postwar, shopping-center strewn, class- and race-divided suburbia. A new book, Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (forthcoming Fall 2019), is a new interpretation of urban renewal as seen through the career of one of its major liberal figures, Ed Logue, who redeveloped New Haven, Boston, and New York State and City.~