Robert David Parmet (Stylized as Robert D. Parmet; born December 11, 1938)[1] is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at York College, City University of New York.[2]

Career

Parmet taught at Kean University up until 1967 in the Social Science Department,[3] and is currently employed at CUNY York and has worked there since its opening in 1967.[4] He has written 7 books on American social history from 1961 to 2012. Additionally he has written for many papers such as the History News Network,[5] United Press International,[6] and International Labor and Working-Class History under the Cambridge University Press.[7]

He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,[8] immigrants,[9] and of David Dubinsky.[10] In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator Chauncey Depew.[11] It was published in 1970.[12]

Personal life

Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf)[13] and is the brother of American historian Herbert Parmet.[14]

He attended Graduate School at Columbia University while teaching at the City College of New York.[6] He was married to Joan Levy on June 8, 1963.[15] She received her Masters in History from Columbia University in 1965.[16] They have a son, Andrew.[17]

Bibliography

Books

Papers

References

  1. ^ Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: 955488
  2. ^ "Robert D. Parmet". NYU Press. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  3. ^ "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; School Name: Kean University; Year: 1967
  4. ^ "York History Revisited at Executive Leadership Breakfast". york.cuny.edu. 2016. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  5. ^ Parmet, Robert D. (2013-04-07). "Review of Lisa Phillips's "A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism" (Illinois, 2012)". History News Network. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  6. ^ a b "From Dallas to Watergate". The Monitor. 1973-11-11. p. 19. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  7. ^ Howard, Walter T. (1999). "Review of The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?; The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921". International Labor and Working-Class History (56): 177–180. ISSN 0147-5479.
  8. ^ Wax, Emily (1998-09-06). "A Driving Force". Newsday. p. 156. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  9. ^ Danyluk, Harry (1981-12-29). "Immigrant Workers". New York Daily News. p. 101. Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  10. ^ Crowe, Kenneth C. (1995-02-21). "Union's Influence Has Waned". Newsday. p. 32. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  11. ^ "Dr. Parmet Gets Grant to Write on Depew". The Reporter Dispatch. 1968-05-28. p. 23. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  12. ^ "DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2024-09-08. Parmet, Robert D. "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew. New-York Historical Society Quarterly 54 (July 1970): 269-90.
  13. ^ National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Year: 1950; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: 221; Page: 20; Enumeration District: 3-1791
  14. ^ Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02496; Page: 11A; Enumeration District: 3-1406
  15. ^ "Robert Parmet Marries at Lincoln Park Center". Herald Statesman. 1963-06-12. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  16. ^ "Mrs. Robert Parmet". Mount Vernon Argus. 1965-06-10. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
  17. ^ Greene, Dick (1978-09-12). "Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood". The Star Press. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-09-08.
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