title: Edward Pessen
text: # Edward Pessen
  
  Edward Pessen (1920–1992) was an American historian.
  
  ## Life
  
  Edeard Pessen was born to a working-class Jewish immigrant family in New York City. After army service Pessen completed undergraduate education (in 1947) and gained a PhD (in 1954) from Columbia University. He taught at several universities, ending as professor of history at the graduate school of the City University of New York. He was a founder of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and was the society's president in 1985–6.
  
  ## Works
  
  * The social philosophies of early American leaders of labor, 1954
  * Most uncommon Jacksonians: the radical leaders of the early labor movement, 1967
  * New perspectives on Jacksonian parties and politics, 1969
  * Jacksonian America: society, personality, and politics, 1969
  * Riches, class, and power before the Civil War, 1973
  * Three centuries of social mobility in America, 1974
  * Jacksonian panorama, 1976
  * The Many-faceted Jacksonian era: new interpretations, 1977
  * The log cabin myth: the social backgrounds of the presidents, 1984
  