Maurice Isserman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Maurice Isserman
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Mar 12, 1951(1951-03-12)
Age	73
Birthplace	Hartford
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Pisces

Maurice Isserman Biography

Maurice Isserman is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on March 12, 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The Issermans were Jewish. Maurice’s uncle Ferdinand Isserman was a prominent St. Louis, Missouri rabbi. Abraham J. Isserman was another uncle. He was a member of International Juridical Association (1931), founder member of National Lawyers Guild (1937), American Civil Liberties Union, and also a lawyer in the Smith Act trial of 1949. He was cited for contempt, then was imprisoned and later disbarred. He was also an advocate for the petitioners in Dennis, v. United States.

Maurice was close to Abraham after the death of his father in 1963. He took Maurice to the 1967 March on The Pentagon.

In August 1974, Isserman began graduate work in history at the University of Rochester, working closely with Eugene Genovese and Christopher Lasch. He received his MA in American history in 1976 and his PhD in 1979. His dissertation was a history of American communism during the Second World War, which became his first published book, Which Side Were You On? in 1982.

After completing his dissertation, Isserman began the itinerant career of the young scholar. His first job was a replacement position for a semester at Oberlin College in fall 1979, followed by replacement positions at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and then back to Oberlin. He settled into Smith College from 1982 to 1988, followed by temporary positions at Mount Holyoke College and Williams College.

His parents divorced in 1959. His mother married Walter Snow, a local newspaper reporter. Walter Snow was a Communist in 1930s Germany and a minor figure in the literary left (John Reed Club member and ditor of The Anvil, an extreme literary magazine in the Midwest). They lived in Coventry, Connecticut. Isserman graduated in 1968 from Coventry High School.

Maurice Isserman Net Worth

Maurice Isserman is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Maurice Isserman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Isserman was conceived in Hartford, Connecticut on March 12, 1951. His family would have a significant impact on his intellectual and political future. Flora Huffman was his mother. She was the sister and daughter of Quaker ministers. She graduated from Quaker college and worked as a social worker in Connecticut. Jacob (Jack) Isserman was born in Antwerp and immigrated to the USA with his family in 1906. He was four years old when he arrived in the US. Later naturalized as an American citizen, he worked as a machinist at Pratt and Whitney’s East Hartford, Connecticut, aircraft factory.

Maurice Isserman, born 1951, formerly William R. Kenan (and the James L. Ferguson Chairs), is a long-standing Professor of History at Hamilton College. He was an important contributor to the “new historical of American communism”, which reinterpreted the role played by the Communist Party USA in the Popular Front period between the 1930s and the 1940s. His books also covered the New Left’s emergence and the 1960s. He co-authored Dorothy Ray Healey’s biography and wrote the award-winning biography about American socialist leader Michael Harrington. He has refocused his efforts on the history and development of mountaineering in America and the Himalayas. He has written book reviews and editorials for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, Newsday and The Nation.

In the fall of 1968, Isserman enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he joined the campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and took part in antiwar protests and other New Left activism. In the spring of 1970, following the US invasion of Cambodia and the Kent State University strike, he dropped out of Reed College and joined the Portland Revolutionary Youth Movement (PRYM) collective. PRYM members were involved in antiwar activities in a local underground newspaper, The Willamette Bridge, and in the local food co-op. After a couple of years, PRYM disbanded, and Isserman returned to Reed to finish his undergraduate degree. He wrote a senior thesis on the history of radical American writers in the 1930s and worked on another underground newspaper, The Portland Scribe. He graduated with a BA in history in 1973 and stayed on another year, working evenings as a proofreader for The Oregonian and days (unpaid) for The Portland Scribe.

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Isserman has also criticized the new Students for a Democratic Society for romanticizing the leadership of the Weatherman faction of the old SDS. In recent years, Isserman has turned to his love of mountaineering to find a fresh focus for his work and wrote Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering with Stewart Weaver, acclaimed as the “authoritative history” of the subject, and Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering, about mountaineering in the United States. He is also writing a history of Hamilton College for its bicentennial in 2012.

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Maurice Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Maurice Isserman celebrates birthday on March 12 of every year.