Bernard Weisberger | |
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Born | Bernard Allen Weisberger August 15, 1922
New York, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Education |
Columbia University (BA) University of Chicago (PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Writer Historian |
Bernard Allen Weisberger (born August 15, 1922) is an American historian. [1] Weisberger taught American history at several universities including the University of Chicago, Wayne State University, and the University of Rochester, where he was chair of the department. [2] He has written more than a dozen books and worked on documentaries with Bill Moyers and Ken Burns. His article "The Dark and Bloody Ground of Reconstruction Historiography," which received the Charles Ramsdell Prize is considered a standard in the study of the Reconstruction period. [3]
Weisberger was a contributing editor of American Heritage, where which he was a columnist for ten years. [4] He published 120 articles in the magazine, with his first appearing in 1955. [5]
Weisberger was also a member of the National Hillel Commission and a participant in the civil rights movement. [1]
He graduated from Columbia University in 1943 and joined the Signal Intelligence Service, which later became the National Security Agency. He studied the Japanese language in a crash course at Columbia, and then served in the Pacific translating intercepted Japanese radio messages that had been decoded by cryptanalysts, but still needed translation. [6] After the war, he received his PhD from University of Chicago. [7]
Weisberger turned 100 in August 2022.
His books include: