Daniel Czitrom has been teaching American cultural and political history at Mount Holyoke College since 1981. He is coauthor, with Bonnie Yochelson, of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). His Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982) received the American Historical Association’s First Book Award and has been translated into Chinese and Spanish. He is also coauthor of Out of Many: A History of the American People (6th ed. 2008), which was banned from Texas high schools in 2003. His current book project, entitled Mysteries of the City, focuses on New York City's underside in the 1890s, and its political and cultural importance for the larger nation.

Lecture topics:

• Mysteries of the City: Politics, Culture, and New York’s Underworld in Turn-of-the-Century America
• Jacob Riis's New York
• Banned in Texas: An Historian’s Adventure in the Culture Wars
• Media and the American Mind

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