Louis Ferleger
Chair, Department of History College of Arts & Sciences at Boston University
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Louis Ferleger is the Chair of the Dept. of History at Boston University.
Ferleger was appointed Professor of History at Boston University in 1999. He has also served as Executive Director of The Historical Society, a historical organization located at Boston University. He is co-author of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy and No Gain, No Pain: Taxes, Productivity and Economic Growth as well as editor of Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. He is also co-editor of Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (2000) and, with Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson, Voting in American Elections: The Shape of the American Political Universe Since 1788 (Academica Press, 2009).
Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Trump Is Right About One Thing
April 26, 2017
History News Network By Louis Ferleger, College of Arts and Sciences When Angela Merkel met President Trump in DC, she brought along CEO’s of major German firms, including Siemens and BMW… View full article
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Trump Is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs. But His Solution Is Terrible
February 15, 2017
History News Network By Louis Ferleger, College of Arts and Sciences “During the Presidential campaign, income inequality became a contentious issue. A sub-text of this approach to inequality was hostility to all trade agreements…” View full article
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What Happened to America’s Good Jobs?
April 25, 2016
History News Network By Louis Ferleger, College of Arts & Sciences As the picket lines swell with more and more Verizon workers, the company’s chief executive, Lowell C. McAdam, asserted that Verizon wanted to protect “good” jobs. But what are good jobs?… View full article by expert Louis Ferlanger
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America’s Dead Zones: From Detroit to Dyersburg, Why Does Prosperity Pass So Many Places By?
February 1, 2012
AlterNet By Louis Ferleger, College of Arts & Sciences Some regions are recovering, while others across America remain in deep decline. How did this happen and what can we do?… View article
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