Abzug, Robert Henry

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ABZUG, Robert Henry

ABZUG, Robert Henry. American, b. 1945. Genres: History, Humanities. Career: University of California, Berkeley, instructor in history, 1976-77; University of California at Los Angeles, lecturer in history, 1977-78; University of Texas at Austin, assistant professor, 1978-84, associate professor, 1984-89, professor of history, 1990-96, director of American studies, 1990-96, director, Liberal Arts Honors, 1996-. Carver Museum of Black History, trustee, 1981-83; University of Munich, Eric Voegelin Visiting Professor, 1990-91. Publications: Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform, 1980; Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps, 1985; (ed. with S. Maizlish) New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America, 1986; Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination, 1994; America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945, 1999. Address: American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, U.S.A.