Nancy Isenberg

Nancy Isenberg is the author of White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of  Class in America, Fallen Founder : The Life of Aaron Burr, and Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America. Her most recent book, written with Andrew Burstein, is The Problem of Democracy: The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality. She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at Louisiana State University.

Life at the Bottom

It’s not just the rich who victimize the poor

By Nancy Isenberg | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Gene Therapy

A writer’s search for herself in the branches of her family tree

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday March 28, 2022

Life in the Shadows

The trauma and violence that prop up our economy

By Nancy Isenberg | Thursday September 2, 2021

White, Whiteness, Whitewash

The masks we wear in America

By Nancy Isenberg | Tuesday December 1, 2020

Beneath the Powdered Wig

Reinterpreting the life of our trendiest Founding Father

By Nancy Isenberg | Wednesday September 23, 2020

Making Their Voices Heard

The story behind passage of the 19th Amendment

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday March 2, 2020
Two women stand side-by-side in front of a stand of trees. The woman on the left is dressed in a light-colored coat., while the one on the right wears black.

Southern Secrets

Three very different women haunted by the past

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday June 3, 2019

Waking From the Dream

Most Americans assume society is more egalitarian than it is

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday June 5, 2017

Life at the Bottom

By Nancy Isenberg | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Gene Therapy

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday March 28, 2022

Life in the Shadows

By Nancy Isenberg | Thursday September 2, 2021

White, Whiteness, Whitewash

By Nancy Isenberg | Tuesday December 1, 2020

Beneath the Powdered Wig

By Nancy Isenberg | Wednesday September 23, 2020

Making Their Voices Heard

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday March 2, 2020
Two women stand side-by-side in front of a stand of trees. The woman on the left is dressed in a light-colored coat., while the one on the right wears black.

Southern Secrets

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday June 3, 2019

Waking From the Dream

By Nancy Isenberg | Monday June 5, 2017

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