Mushkat, Jerome 1931-

PERSONAL:

Born May 5, 1931, in Livingston Manor, NY; son of Morris and Fanny B. Mushkat; married Barbara Sacks (an attorney), June 17, 1961; children: Linda, Stephen. Education: Syracuse University, B.A., 1953, M.A., 1954, Ph.D., 1964.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Akron, OH 44303.

CAREER:

University of Akron, Akron, OH, instructor, 1962-64, assistant professor, 1964-68, associate professor, 1968-75, professor of history, 1976-2002, professor emeritus, 2002—. Military service: U.S. Army, 1954-56.

MEMBER:

Organization of American Historians, American Studies Association, American Association of University Professors.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Outstanding teacher award, Ohio Academy of History, 1998.

WRITINGS:

Tammany: The Evolution of a Political Machine, 1789-1865, Syracuse University Press (Syracuse, NY), 1971.

The Reconstruction of New York Democracy, 1861-1874, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Rutherford, NJ), 1981.

Fernando Wood: A Political Biography, Kent State University Press (Kent, OH), 1990.

(With Joseph G. Rayback) Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology, Northern Illinois University Press (DeKalb, IL), 1997.

(Editor and author of introduction) A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris, Northern Illinois University Press (DeKalb, IL), 2002.

(Editor) Edward C. Arn, Arn's War: Memoirs of a World War II Infantryman, 1940-1946, University of Akron Press (Akron, OH), 2005.

Shorter works include the booklets "Aaron Burr: Controversial Politician of Early America" and "George Clinton: New York Governor during Revolutionary Times," both published by SamHar Press (Charlotteville, NY), 1974. Contributor to history journals.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

History: Review of New Books, fall, 1998, Donald Roper, review of Martin Van Buren: Law, Politics, and the Shaping of Republican Ideology, p. 15.

Journal of Southern History, February, 2004, Mark R. Cheatham, review of A Citizen-Soldier's Civil War: The Letters of Brevet Major General Alvin C. Voris, p. 173.