Robert W. Cherny

Robert W. Cherny is professor of history at San Francisco State University. His research and teaching interests are in U.S. history 1865-1940, politics, labor, and the West, especially California and San Francisco. His published work includes American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 (1997); San Francisco, 1865-1932 (1981), with William Issel; A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1985); and coauthored textbooks on U.S. and California history. He has been an NEH Fellow, Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Moscow State University, and Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Heidelberg University, and has lectured for Teaching American History programs around the country.

Lecture topics:

• The Evolution of the Presidency, from the Gilded Age through World War II
• The Transformation of American Politics, 1890-1917
• A New Majority? Stability and Change in American Political History and the Prospects for Realignment Today
• The Dysfunctional State of California Government
• History of San Francisco (various topics)

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