Allan J. Lichtman

Professor
PhD, Harvard University
Battelle 147
lichtman@american.edu
202-885-2411
Office Hours: Mon. 5-8pm, Thu. 11am-2pm
Curriculum Vitae

Course Syllabi

Spring 2008

HIS 364/664 U.S. Presidential Elections

Fall 2007

HIS 126 What Is America?
HIS 380/680 Conservatism in U.S. Political Culture

Fields of Interest

Quantitative Methods, American political history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Professor Lichtman's books include Prejudice and Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928; Your Family History; Ecological Inference; and The 13 Keys to the Presidency. His most recent books are The Keys to the White House: 2008 Edition and White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement.

He was named the 1992-1993 Scholar-Teacher of the Year, the university's highest faculty honor, and has provided commentary for all major U.S. broadcasting networks and cable companies, the Voice of America, and many foreign broadcast companies, including BBC and CBC. He worked with Dan Rather as a CBS consultant during the impeachment of President Clinton, served as the 2004 election-night analyst for BBC Worldwide and the political analyst for CNN Headline News.

His more than 100 scholarly and popular articles have appeared in such journals and newspapers as The American Historical Review, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is also a columnist for the Montgomery Gazette and has served as an expert witness in more than 75 voting rights and redistricting cases. As an expert for the US Commission on Civil Rights he discovered the vast disparity in ballot rejection rates for blacks and whites that explained the results of Florida's 2000 presidential election.