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Ellen Fitzpatrick
professor, history, UNH
Ellen Fitzpatrick, a professor and scholar specializing in modern American political and intellectual history, is the author and editor of six books and has appeared regularly on PBS’s *The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer*. She has been interviewed as an expert on modern American political history by the *New York Times*, the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Los Angeles Times, USA Today*, the *Boston Globe*, the *Washington Post*, CBS’s *Face the Nation*, and National Public Radio. She is the Carpenter Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire, where she has been recognized for Excellence in Public Service
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The Politics of Hope: Four Historians Take on the Obama Presidency
Partner:Mass Humanities