Lawrence B. Glickman

Cornell University

Lawrence B. Glickman is a professor of history at Cornell University.

Prior to joining Cornell's history department in 2014, Glickman was the Carolina Trustee Professor and chair of the history department at the University of South Carolina, where he had taught since 1992. He teaches courses on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, consumer society in comparative perspective, and the United States since the Civil War.

He is the author or editor of four books, including Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America (2009) and Consumer Society in American History: A Reader (1999). Interested in cultural history, he has co-edited, with James W. Cook and Michael O'Malley, The Cultural Turn in U.S. History: Past, Present, and Future (2008) and is currently researching and writing a book called The Free Enterprise System: A Cultural History.

Featured Work

AUG 15, 2016 Podcast

The Conscious Consumer

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AUG 11, 2016 Podcast

Impact Podcast Preview: The Conscious Consumer

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