After Junior High School 125, I went on to Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan.  I studied history at Columbia University, and received my MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in French Economic History. 

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          From 1970 to 2013, I taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, continuing to teach as an emeritus until this past spring when Covid-19 shut everything down. 

 

          I have lived for more than 45 years in small towns north of Boston with my wife, Ruth.  Following a tradition begun by my father with a Victory Garden behind our 44th Street home, I enjoy growing a few vegetables.  We’ve expanded our horizons on visits to our son, Jeremy, and three grandsons who live in Myanmar (Burma).