Professor Glickman regularly teaches surveys of US History since the Civil War; lecture courses on the United States in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and the United States since World War II; undergraduate seminars in labor, cultural, and consumer history; as well as a variety of graduate seminars, including one on the comparative history of consumer societies. His first book, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society (Cornell 1997; paperback, 1999) examine the role that workers played in the development of consumer society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His edited anthology, Consumer Society in American History: A Reader (Cornell 1999) is designed to introduce students to key readings in the field.

Current Activities:

I am currently researching and writing a book on the history of consumer activism in America, from the Boston Tea Party in 1773 to the present. I am interested in changes and continuities in this long-lasting but relatively unexamined American political tradition. So far, I have published four articles on this topic, including, "Buy for the Sake of the Slave: Abolitionism and the Origins of American Consumer Activism," American Quarterly 56 (Dec. 2004), "Make Lisle the Style: Fashion as Politics in the Japanese Silk Boycott, 1937-1940," Journal of Social History Spring 2005), and "The Strike in the Temple of Consumption," Journal of American History (June 2001). I am also preparing a chapter on challenges to the ideal of thrift for a collaborative project on "Thrift and American Culture" and am preparing a paper for a conference at Columbia University on the fifty-year anniversary of the influential book, Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Elihu Katz. Finally, I am co-organizer of a conference, "The State of Cultural History,” which will both honor my mentor, Lawrence W. Levine, and examine where cultural history is going. The conference, which we're hoping will result in an edited volume, will take place in Sept. 2005 at George Mason University: http://chnm.gmu.edu/levineconference.