Lizabeth Cohen

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University, and author of Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.

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The Lessons of the Great Depression
In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.
Lizabeth Cohen
May 17, 2020
John Vachon, 1939 / Library of Congress