Biography
Allen Matusow, Ph.D., is a Rice emeritus faculty scholar at the Baker Institute and the William Gaines Twyman Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. He joined the Rice faculty in 1963 and served as the dean of humanities from 1981 to 1995. He specializes in 20th-century U.S. history and has written or edited five books, including “The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s” (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and “Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars and Votes” (University Press of Kansas, 1998), and is currently writing a book on the origins of Jewish and Arab nationalism. Matusow served on the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's advisory board from 2011 until 2021. He received his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University in 1963.
Contact him at matusow@rice.edu or (713) 348-5275.
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- By Allen J. Matusow - The Unraveling Of America by Allen J. Matusow (Dec 1, 2010)
- The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s by Allen J. Matusow (Dec 1, 2009)
- Nixon's Civil Rights: Politics, Principle, and Policy.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Southern History... by Allen J. Matusow (Jul 31, 2005)
- Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now.(Book Review): An article from: The Historian by Allen J. Matusow (Sep 3, 2005)
- Nixon's Economy : Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes by Allen J. Matusow (Apr 1998)
- The Unravelling of America a History of Liberalism in the 1960s by Allen J. Matusow (1986)
- The Unraveling of America. A History of Liberalism in the 1960s. A Volume in the by Allen J. Matusow (1984)
- Great Lives Observed: Joseph R. Mccarthy. by Allen J. (editor). Matusow (1973)
- Twentieth Century America: Recent Interpretations by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow (Aug 15, 1972)
- Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations. by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow (Jun 1972)
- Twentieth-Century America Recent Interpretations by Barton J. Bernstein & Allen J. Matusow (1972)
- Joseph McCarthy (Great Lives Observed) by Allen J. Matusow (Jul 24, 1970)
- Farm Policies & Politics in the Truman Years by Allen J. Matusow (1970)
- Joseph R. McCarthy by Allen J. Matusow (1970)
- Truman Administration: Documentary History by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow (Nov 1969)
- Twentieth-Century America: Recent Intrepretations by Barton J. Bernstein and Allen J. Matusow (1969)
- Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations by Barton J. and Matusow, Allen J. Bernstein (1969)
- The Truman Administration:A Documentary History by Barton J. & Matusow, Allen J. (Editors) Bernstein (1966)