Stephen H. Norwood was a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He received his PhD at Columbia University in 1984.^[1]

Norwood's 2009 book The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses, drew attention even before publication.^[2][3][4][5] According to Norwood, "Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi regime in the West",^[6] and was "indifferent to the prosecution of German Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West", welcoming one of Adolf Hitler's closest deputies to a reunion, hosting a reception for German naval officials and sending delegates to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews, while failing to condemn the policies of Hitler's regime.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

Norwood's most recent book is Antisemitism and the American Far Left. This is the first systematic study of the American far-left's role in both promoting and combating antisemitism. The book covers both the Old Left and New Left, including the latter's black nationalist allies. It also examines antisemitism in the contemporary far-left, including its relationships with Islamists.^[12][13]

Books

• Norwood, Stephen H. (2021). Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-05361-9.
• Norwood, Stephen H. (2013). Antisemitism and the American Far Left. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03601-7.
• Norwood, Stephen H. (2009). The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-76243-4.
• Norwood, Stephen H. (2002). Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2705-3.
• Norwood, Stephen H. (1990). Labor's Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878 - 1923. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01633-5.
• Norwood, Stephen H. (2004). Real Football: Conversations on America's Game. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-662-9.
• Norwood, Stephen H.; Pollack, Eunice G., eds. (2007). Encyclopedia of American Jewish History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-638-1.

Awards

• Herbert G. Gutman Award in American Social History, 1990
• SABR/Macmillan Award
• Finalist, National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Studies, 2009