Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1922, Mar. 18 | Born, New York, N.Y. |
| 1943 | B.S., City College of New York, N.Y. |
| 1945 | Married Elsie Braun (died 1987) |
| 1946-1948 | Lecturer, University of Toronto, Canada |
| 1948-1950 | Assistant professor, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. |
| 1949 | Ph.D in sociology, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1950-1956 | Assistant professor, associate professor, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. |
| 1956-1966 | Professor of sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. |
| 1960 | Published Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday |
| 1963 | Published First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective. New York: Basic Books |
| 1966-1975 | George Markham Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1975-1990 | Professor of political science and sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1975-circa 2006 | Senior fellow, Hoover Insitution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. |
| 1977-1989 | Co-editor, Public Opinion |
| 1979-1980 | President, American Political Science Association |
| 1982-1986 | Vice president, president, World Association for Public Opinion Research |
| 1990 | Married Sydnee Guyer |
| 1990-circa 2006 | Virginia E. Hazel and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va. |
| 1992-1993 | President, American Sociological Association |
| 1995 | Published with Earl Raab Jews and the New American Scene. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press |
| 1996 | Published American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword. New York: W. W. Norton |
| 2000 | Published with Gary Marks It Didn't Happen Here: Why Socialism Failed in the United States. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press |
| 2004 | Published with Jason M. Lakin Democratic Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press Published with Noah M. Meltz, Rafael Gomez, and Ivan Katchanovski Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, But Join Much Less. Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press |
| 2006, Dec. 31 | Died, Arlington, Va. |