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Professor Levy received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his A.B. from Washington and Jefferson College.
Dr. Levy is the author eight books including: Musical Nationalism, a
study of the American composers who came to prominence amidst the expatriate
era of the 1920s; Elite Education and the Private School, a
discussion of the vagaries of private secondary education at one of the
nation's premier academies; Radical Aesthetics and Music Criticism, which
looks at the relationship of leftist political ideologies to the realms of
music and aesthetics; Government and the Arts, a history of the debates over
the subject of the Federal Government's support for the arts; a biography
of the American composer Edward MacDowell; a biography of the
zany, brilliant baseball player of the early 20th century, Rube Waddell;
and Tackling Jim Crow, a study of the origins, breakdowns, and
legacies of racial segregation in professional football. His
biography of Joe McCarthy is contracted and slated for publication
in 2004.
Undergraduate
Courses Graduate
Courses
Twentieth-Century
World
Gilded Age and Progressivism
Colonial America to
1825
Eighteenth-Century Europe
Nineteenth-Century
America
Russian History, 1855-present
20th-Century America
Russian History: To 1855 and Since 1855
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Outstanding Americans
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