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Michael McGerr

Michael McGerr is an American historian working at Indiana University in the History Department, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences. In 2005 he was appointed the Paul V. McNutt Professor of American History, an endowed professorship at Indiana University. In his career, Michael McGerr has worked at MIT, Yale and Indiana University. He is the author of A Fierce Discontent and a co-author of the text Making a Nation.

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Michael McGerr is an American historian working at Indiana University in the History Department, a unit of the College of Arts and Sciences.1 In 2005 he was appointed the Paul V. McNutt Professor of American History, an endowed professorship at Indiana University.2 In his career, Michael McGerr has worked at MIT, Yale and Indiana University. He is the author of A Fierce Discontent and a co-author of the text Making a Nation.3

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  1. "Michael McGerr profile". Indiana University - Department of History.
  2. Two historians receive endowed professorships. Indiana University press release, July 11, 2005. Retrieved September 13, 2008. Archived December 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  3. McGerr, Michael E. (2005). A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0195183657.
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