Lawrence W. Levine

Lawrence W. Levine (1933–2006) was an American historian and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as Margaret Byrne Professor of History. He also taught at George Mason University, received a MacArthur Fellowship, and served as president of the Organization of American Historians.

His scholarship examined American cultural and intellectual history, African American experience, and popular culture. His books include Black Culture and Black Consciousness, Highbrow/Lowbrow, The Unpredictable Past, The Opening of the American Mind: Canons, Culture, and History, and, with Cornelia Levine, The People and the President: America’s Conversation with FDR.