Paul Finkelman | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York | November 15, 1949
Education | Ph.D. University of Chicago 1976, MA University of Chicago 1972, BA Syracuse University 1971 |
Occupation(s) | historian, educator, author, speaker, legal scholar |
Paul Finkelman (born November 15, 1949) is an American legal historian. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books on American legal and constitutional history, slavery, general American history and baseball. In addition, he has authored more than 200 scholarly articles on these and many other subjects. From 2017 - 2022, Finkelman served as the President and Chancellor of Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania (the oldest independent Jewish college in the United States).[1]