Maurice Isserman

Maurice Isserman, who has been visiting Wellfleet since 1969, is the Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, where he has taught since 1990, following stints in the history departments of Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and Williams College.  He received his BA from Reed College and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.  He has published widely in a number of fields, including the history of American radicalism, the history of mountaineering, the history of the 1960s, and the history of the Second World War. His book Fallen Giants: The History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored with Stewart Weaver, won the Banff Literary Festival prize for best mountaineering history of 2008.   His most recent book, published this year, is Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism.