Undergraduate Courses:
- US History Since 1865
- Postwar America
- The Cold War
- Crime and Punishment in US History
- American Immigration
- Interpretations of American History
- Recent American History
Lee Bernstein is an historian of crime and punishment in U.S. culture
and politics between the 1940s and the 1970s. His research and writing
focus on the history of organized crime and the history of prisons
and prisoners. In addition to presentations at scholarly conferences,
he lectures to audiences throughout the Hudson Valley on topics related
to postwar American history and the history of crime and punishment.
He is the author of The Greatest Menace: Organized Crime in Cold War
America (University of Massachusetts Press) and America is the Prison:
A Cultural History of Prisons and Prisoners in 1970s America (University
of North Carolina Press, forthcoming).
He received his B.A. from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, M.A. from Boston College, and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.