Edward Pessen
# Edward Pessen

Edward Pessen (1920–1992) was an American historian.

## Life

Edeard Pessen was born to a working-class Jewish immigrant family in New York City. After army service Pessen completed undergraduate education (in 1947) and gained a PhD (in 1954) from Columbia University. He taught at several universities, ending as professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York. He was a founder of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and was the society's president in 1985–6.

## Works

* The social philosophies of early American leaders of labor, 1954
* Most uncommon Jacksonians: the radical leaders of the early labor movement, 1967
* New perspectives on Jacksonian parties and politics, 1969
* Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics, 1969
* Riches, class, and power before the Civil War, 1973
* Three centuries of social mobility in America, 1974
* Jacksonian panorama, 1976
* The Many-faceted Jacksonian era: new interpretations, 1977
* The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents, 1984
