François Furstenberg Explained

Discipline:American history

François Furstenberg is a historian. He taught at the Université de Montréal and currently teaches at Johns Hopkins University.[1]

Biography

Furstenberg was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington. His grandmother, Edith H. Furstenberg, was a social worker and daughter of Sidney Hollander,[2] a pharmacist who invented the Rem cough medicine and became a philanthropist.[3] [4] She married prominent Baltimore physician Frank F. Furstenberg and advocate for national health care legislation.[5] His father, Mark Furstenberg, is a baker who runs the Bread Furst bakery and won a James Beard Foundation Award in 2017.[6] [7] [8] His uncle is the University of Pennsylvania sociologist Frank Furstenberg and his aunt, Carla Furstenberg Cohen, founded and owned the Chevy Chase bookstore Politics and Prose.[9]

Furstenberg received his B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.[10] His research focuses explores the history of the United States and the Atlantic World in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[11] He has written about the history of slavery in the United States and the history of French émigrés in the United States.[12]

He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 2013.[13]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Historian François Furstenberg works on the video game Assassin's Creed III.. 2017-10-20. 2017-11-09. en.
  2. News: 1972-02-24 . Sidney Hollander Dead at 90; Long Active in Social Welfare . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-01 . 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: Edith Furstenberg, social worker . 2022-06-01 . Baltimore Sun. 15 February 2015 .
  4. Web site: Edith Furstenberg . 2022-06-01 . Jewish Women's Archive . en.
  5. News: 1997-08-08 . Frank F. Furstenberg, Doctor, 92 . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-01 . 0362-4331.
  6. News: Krystal . Becky . Carman . Tim . May 2, 2017 . Bread Furst's Mark Furstenberg wins James Beard Award . June 1, 2022 . The Washington Post.
  7. Web site: D.C.'s Mark Furstenberg Named James Beard Outstanding Baker . https://web.archive.org/web/20190630021432/https://dcist.com/story/17/05/02/dcs-mark-furstenberg-named-james-be/ . live . June 30, 2019 . 2022-06-01 . DCist . en.
  8. Web site: Our First Clear Failure breadfurst.com . 2022-06-01 . breadfurst.com.
  9. News: Parker . Ashley . 2010-10-12 . Carla Cohen, Owner of Washington Bookstore, Dies at 74 . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-06-01 . 0362-4331.
  10. Book: Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development . Columbia College today . Columbia College (Columbia University) . December 2011 . New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development . Columbia University Libraries.
  11. Web site: François Furstenberg . 2022-06-01 . History . 11 February 2014 . en-US.
  12. Web site: July-Aug 2014 . Bret McCabe / Published . 2014-07-01 . JHU history professor's book shows how five French expats shaped America . 2022-06-01 . The Hub . en.
  13. Web site: When the United States Spoke French: François Furstenberg and Anka Muhlstein . 2022-06-01 . The New York Public Library.
  14. Web site: Ford Evening Book Talk: François Furstenberg. George Washington's Mount Vernon. en. 2017-11-09.
  15. News: Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by Francois Furstenberg. Washington Post. 2017-11-09.
  16. News: Socializing, Speculating, and Speaking French in François Furstenberg's Philadelphia. 2014-10-08. The Junto. 2017-11-09. en-US.
  17. Web site: Book review: 'When the United States Spoke French' by François Furstenberg - Books - The Boston Globe. https://web.archive.org/web/20140823100353/https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2014/08/16/book-review-when-united-states-spoke-french-francois-furstenberg/KQagBfgOazEhszHyKEYw4O/story.html. dead. 2014-08-23. . 2014-08-23. 2017-11-09.

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