His Books:
Professor
Levy has written numerous books and articles, including: Civil
War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2003); The
New Left and Labor in the 1960s (Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
1992); The Civil Rights Movement (Westport, CT: Greenwood,
1998 ) and America
in the Sixties--Right, Left, and Center : A Documentary History (Westport:
CT: Greenwood, 1998); Let Freedom Ring: A Documentary History of the
Civil Rights Movement (Westport: CT: Praeger, 1992); 100 Key
Documents in American Democracy, rev. ed. (Westport: CT: Praeger, 1999),
The
Encyclopedia of the Reagan Bush Years (Westport: CT: Greenwood, 1994)
andThe
Encylopedia of the Clinton Presidency (Westport: CT: Greenwwod, 2001).
His articles and book reviews have appeared in Labor
History,
Maryalnd
Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of
Southern History, Urban Historyand
Vietnam
Generation. He is also an editor
of a series entitled, Shapers of the Great
Debates, also published by Greenwood Press.
Each volume in this series takes a biographical approach to one of the
great debates or issues in American history. For example, the first
volume in the series, Shapers of the Great Debate
on Immigration, by
Mary Elizabeth
Brown, examines the debate over immigration via biographies of twenty
prominent figures, from Thomas Jefferson to Alan Simpson, who influenced
American attitudes and policies of and toward immigrants. Forthcoming
volumes will examine the debate over Vietnam, the Great Society, and Jacksonian
America. Prospective authors interested in the series can contact
Professor Levy directly at 717-815-1497 or via email plevy@ycp.edu
For more information about Peter Levy's books visit the following
homepages: Greenwood's homepage
(www.greenwood.com); University
of Florida Press homepage (www.upf.com). All of his books, including
descriptions of them, are available at Amazon.com
and BN.com (Barnes
and Nobles) .
Ongoing Research:
Professor Levy is currently
completing an American history textbook for Prentice Hall to be published in the
fall of 2006. He is also beginning a long-term project on the history of
natural disasters in American history. Sparked by hurricane Katrina, this
project will consider the ways that historians have integrated or failed to
integrate natural disasters into their narratives of the American past.
Research and the Classroom:
Professor Levy sees his work in the classroom
and his research as fully complementary. His research allows him
to keep up-to-date in the lastest scholarship in subject matters that he
covers in the class. He often involves his students in his research.
In a recent course, students were required to read a draft copy of one
of his manuscripts and to offer critical commentary. In another classes,
students conducted primary research. In still another class they
read one of recently completed books, which had been initially read in
manuscript form by their peers.