Robert Weisbrot

Robert Weisbrot is the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at Colby College. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history for his book The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change during the 1960s (Penguin, 2008), co-written with G. Calvin Mackenzie. His first book, Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement (Norton, 1990), won the Gustavus Adolphus Myers award for an outstanding book on human rights. Weisbrot is also the author of Father Divine and the Struggle for Racial Equality (U of Illinois P, 1983), which he later adapted for children in secondary school as part of Coretta Scott King’s “Black Americans of Achievement” series (Chelsea, 1993), and of Xena: Warrior Princess: The Official Guide to the Xenaverse (Doubleday, 1998). He is currently at work on the first definitive biography of Clara Lemlich Shavelson, a godmother of the modern labor movement who spent a lifetime raising immigrant working-class women from invisibility to lasting power.