Joshua Zeitz

Zeitz was born in Trenton and raised in Bordentown, where he attended Bordentown Regional High School, which inducted him into its hall of fame in 1990.[1] He obtained his B.A. from Swarthmore College (1996), with Highest Honors, and earned an A.M. (1998) and a Ph.D. (2002) in American history from Brown University.[2] He is the author of three books, co-author and editor of a high school history textbook, and has written numerous academic and non-academic articles. Zeitz has held academic positions at Harvard University, Princeton University, and University of Cambridge.[3] In 2008 Zeitz ran as a Democrat for Congress representing New Jersey's 4th district. He was defeated by incumbent Chris Smith 32% to 66%.[4]

Zeitz has held several academic positions including:

• Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University (2001–03)
• Lecturer on American history and Director of Studies in History, Pembroke College, Cambridge University (2003–07)[5]
• Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University (2010-2011)

• Joshua Zeitz. (2014), Lincoln's Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln's Image, Viking, ISBN 978-0670025664
• Keller, Morton; Zeitz, Joshua; Klee, Mary Beth; Holdren, John, eds. (2009), The American Odyssey: A History of the United States, K12, ISBN 978-1601530349
• Joshua Zeitz. (2006), Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern, Three Rivers Press, ISBN 978-1-4000-8054-0
• Joshua M. Zeitz. (2007), White Ethnic New York: Jews, Catholics, and the Shaping of Postwar Politics, The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 978-0-8078-3095-6
• Joshua Zeitz. (2018), Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House, Viking, ISBN 978-0-5254-2878-7
• Joshua Zeitz. (2023), Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation, Viking, ISBN 978-1984882219

Zeitz's articles and commentary in the popular press include:

• "Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?" Politico, December 31, 2017.
• "When America Hated Catholics" Politico, September 23, 2015.
• "If Guns Make Us Safer, Why Not Let Them Into the U.S. Capitol?" Politico, July 18, 2015.
• "Fact-Checking Lincoln," The Atlantic, November 12, 2012.
• "Chris Christie's Summer of Self Promotion," The Atlantic, August 7, 2012.
• "1964: The Year the 60s Began," American Heritage Magazine, October 2006
• "Boomer Century," American Heritage Magazine, October 2005, 32-48
• "Saving Grace," The New Republic (Online), December 30, 2004
• "Miller's Crossing," The New Republic (Online), September 1, 2004
• "The Big Lie About the Little Pill," New York Times, December 27, 2003
• "Disunited Nations," American Heritage Magazine, August/September 2003
• "The Fall (and Potential Rise) of Liberalism," Los Angeles Times, December 22, 2002, M2
• "Dixie's Victory," American Heritage Magazine, September 2002, 46-55
• "Are Our Liberties in Peril?" American Heritage Magazine, November/December 2001, 34-37
• "Back to the Barricades," American Heritage Magazine, October 2001, 70-75
• "Rebel Redemption Redux," Dissent (Winter 2001), cover 30-37
• "Impeach Andrew Johnson!" The New Republic, January 18, 1999, cover, 13-1

Zeitz's academic writings include

• Zeitz, Joshua (2008), "Rejecting the Center: Radical Grassroots Politics in the 1970s -- Second-Wave Feminism as a Case Study", Journal of Contemporary History, SAGE Publications, vol. 43, no. 4, pp. 673–688, doi:10.1177/0022009408095422, JSTOR 40543229, S2CID 153550017
• Zeitz, Joshua Michael (2000), "The Missouri Compromise Reconsidered: Antislavery Rhetoric and the Emergence of the Free Labor Synthesis", Journal of the Early Republic, University of Pennsylvania Press, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 447–485, doi:10.2307/3125065, JSTOR 3125065
• Zeitz, Joshua Michael (2000), ""If I Am Not for Myself ... ": The American Jewish Establishment in the Aftermath of the Six Day War", American Jewish History, The Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 88, no. 2, pp. 253–286, doi:10.1353/ajh.2000.0045, S2CID 162230905