Nicholas Anthony Salvatore (born 1943) is an American historian who serves as the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Professor of American Studies at Cornell University.^[2]

Biography

Salvatore was born in 1943 in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. He graduated from Hunter College in 1968, and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with an MA and PhD, where he studied with Leon F. Litwack. He has taught American history at the College of the Holy Cross and at Cornell University.^[3]

He has two daughters, Gabriella and Nora, and two grandsons, Joseph and Oscar. He and his wife, Ann Sullivan, live in Ithaca, New York.

Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships
• Senior Fellow in Residence at the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion at Yale University.
• Bancroft Prize, for Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
• John H. Dunning Prize, for Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
• New England History Association's Outstanding Book Prize, for We All Got History

Works

• Salvatore, Nick (1982). Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-01148-1.^[4]
• We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber. Times Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8129-2681-1.
• Singing in a Strange Land: Rev. C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Little, Brown and Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-316-16037-7.
• "Biography and Social History : an Intimate Relationship", Labour History", November 2008

Edited

• Faith and the Historian: Catholic Perspectives. University of Illinois Press. 2007. ISBN 978-0-252-07382-3.
• Richard Schneirov; Shelton Stromquist; Nick Salvatore, eds. (1999). The Pullman Strike and the crisis of the 1890s: essays on labor and politics. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06755-6.