Richard Polenberg


Richard Polenberg is an American historian.
He received his BA from Brooklyn College and his PhD from Columbia University, the latter under the supervision of William E. Leuchtenburg.
Polenberg taught history at Cornell University for 45 years, from 1966 to 2011,; he is now Marie Underhill Noll Professor of History Emeritus. In retirement, he also taught in the Auburn Correctional Facility as a part of the Cornell Prison Education Program.. Polenberg published several works during this period, the majority concerning the 20th century U.S. For Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech, published in 1989, he received two awards.

Selected works