Nancy Isenberg
American historian and author
Nancy Isenberg is an American historian who wrote White Trash, a New York Times bestseller about class in America.
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American Born 1958
About Nancy Isenberg
Nancy Isenberg is an American historian who has held the T. Harry Williams professorship in American history at Louisiana State University. She has also contributed to Salon.com. She wrote White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, which came out in 2016 and was a New York Times bestseller. Her biography Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr was a finalist in the biography category of the LA Times Book Prize. Isenberg has also coauthored Madison and Jefferson with Andrew Burstein. She received the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.