Robert Cohen is the co-author of Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond (2021) and author of Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism (2018). A professor of history and social studies at NYU Steinhardt, his previous books include Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s; The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America; The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (co-edited by Reginald E. Zelnik).