How Did Lawrence W. Levine Impact On American Culture

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Lawrence W Levine a powerful student of history for over three decades he died in October 23, 2006, from cancer at his house in Berkeley. He was 73, Levine joined the University of California Berkeley staff in 1962, resigning in 1994 as the Margaret Byrne Professor of History. That same year he was named teacher of history and social examinations at George Mason University in Virginia. Levine has significantly impacted the manners by which we consider American history. His first book, Defender of the Faith (1965), an investigation of William J. Bryan's last decade returned to a large number of the old hat pictures of Bryan and the 1920s. In it as he came to acknowledge, he was looking for "to comprehend an alternate piece of the nation and …show more content…

So many people get againt on him, he was the simple men he use to live in rented cabin in Umpqua river but he was quite famous in history. Levine died in college while giving the lecture, he was the most gentle and kind hearted person and he was married to women named Lynda Winter after dating her long time. Levine was intense person and he like music, art and all other soft kind of things that make men more peaceful. He was honored by many awards like MacArthur in George Mason university in 1983, also elected for american academy of …show more content…

White American always try to race over black and white even in tall dark, lotion, oils and all other basic stuff. Levine spend little time with Afro people, they separated them sleeve with other culture. “This was especially the case in slavery times, thus accounting for the abundance of antebellum black song and story, religious and secular. The origin of the spirituals (a long-disputed matter) is given due attention by Levine, followed by a descriptive analysis of their role in the thought world of the slaves. The spirituals were not without their escapist overtones, their narcotic pull. But they also abounded in code words and double meanings, many of which struck a note of social protest sometimes reaching the proportions of a barely concealed freedom rings.” (Levine,