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Brooklyn College was founded in 1930. [5] That year, as directed by the New York City Board of Higher Education on April 22, the college authorized the combination of the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College, at that time a city women's college, and the City College of New York, then a men's college (both these branches had been established in 1926).
Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 [1] – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College.He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998), and author of Forgotten Patriots: The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War, (2008), which won the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award.
Robert David Johnson (born November 27, 1967), [1] also known as KC Johnson, is an American history professor at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He played a major role in reporting on the Duke University lacrosse rape case in 2006–2007.
Joel H. Silbey (B.A. 1955), historian and President White Professor of History at Cornell University; Richard Slotkin (B.A. 1963), cultural critic and historian of the Western United States; Clarence Taylor (B.A. 1975), professor emeritus of History at Baruch College and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America
Hess was the sixth president of Brooklyn College, from 1979 until 1992. [4] [5] [1] In a 1988 survey of thousands of academic deans, the college ranked 5th in the United States in providing students with a strong general education. [5] Brooklyn College was the only college in the top five in the survey that was a public institution.
Jimmy Walker, the Mayor of New York City, appointed Boylan the first President of Brooklyn College in May 1930. [6] [8] Boylan resigned as President and retired in September 1938 due to illness, as he was suffering from neuritis, and died on July 8, 1940, at 71 years of age. [9] [1] [10] [11] He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Queens, New York ...
In 2014, the first biography of Chisholm for an adult audience was published, Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change, by Brooklyn College history professor Barbara Winslow, who was also the founder and first director of the Shirley Chisholm Project. Until then, only several juvenile biographies had appeared.
He was the college's dean of administration from, initially, the year 1954, until at the end of the day the year 1966, when he became the college's acting president. [4] He was the third president of Brooklyn College, from 1966 to 1967. [4] [5] [6] Starting in 1969, Kilcoyne was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of St. Francis College in Brooklyn.