Lawrence Levine

Lawrence W. Levine

Looks at the development of a split between serious and popular culture in America and discusses drama, opera, orchestral music, art, and literature

The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America

Highbrow/Lowbrow

Margaret Byrne Professor of History Lawrence W Levine

Surveys the oral cultural heritage of black Americans as manifested in music, folk tales and heroes, and humor.

Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom

Black Culture and Black Consciousness

Defender of the Faith offers a reinterpretation of William Jennings Bryan in his last years as an unchanging Progressive whose roots were deeply embedded in agrarian populism. It changes the standard picture of Bryan in his final years as that of a crusader for social and economic reform sadly transformed into a reactionary champion of anachronistic rural evangelism, cheap moralistic panaceas, and Florida real estate. He pleaded for for progressive labor laws, liberal taxes, government aid to farmers, public ownership of railroads, telegraphs, and telephones, federal development of water resources, minimum wages for labor, and other advanced causes.

William Jennings Bryan, the Last Decade, 1915-1925

Defender of the Faith

Robert Middlekauff

Readings in American Culture and Society

The National Temper

Alan Trachtenberg

Photographs by a team of photographers who traveled across the United States documenting America's experience of the Great Depression and World War II.

Documenting America, 1935-1943

In response to recent "right-wing" books attacking the contemporary university and blaming educators for a decline in American culture, Levine argues that the "opening up" of American education and of a changing society are inextricably linked.

Lawrence W. Levine

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