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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Parmet > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Robert_Parmet.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parmet > Source revision: 1336967019 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|American professor (born 1938)}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Parmet | birth_name = Robert David Parmet | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1938|12|11}} | birth_place = [New York City](/source/New_York_City), New York, United States | alma_mater = [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) | occupation = Professor | years_active = 1961–present | employer = [York College, City University of New York](/source/York_College%2C_City_University_of_New_York) | spouse = Joan Levy (m. 1963) | children = 1 | relatives = [Herbert Parmet](/source/Herbert_Parmet) (brother) }} '''Robert David Parmet''' (stylized as ''Robert D. Parmet''; born December 11, 1938)Gale Research Company; Detroit, Michigan; Accession Number: ''955488'' is an American writer and teacher. He is a professor of history at [York College, City University of New York](/source/York_College%2C_City_University_of_New_York).{{Cite web |title=Robert D. Parmet |url=https://nyupress.org/author/robert-d-parmet/ |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=NYU Press |language=en-US}} == Career == Parmet taught at Newark State College (now known as [Kean University](/source/Kean_University)) from 1965 to 1967 in the Social Science Department,''"U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"''; School Name: ''Kean University''; Year: ''1967'' and is currently employed at [CUNY York](/source/CUNY_YORK) and has worked there since its opening in 1967.{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=York History Revisited at Executive Leadership Breakfast |url=https://www.york.cuny.edu/academics/academic-affairs/newsletter/volume-10-issue-3/view |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=york.cuny.edu |page=3}} He has written four books on American social history from 1961 to 2012. Additionally he has written for many papers such as the [History News Network](/source/History_News_Network),{{Cite web |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=2013-04-07 |title=Review of Lisa Phillips's "A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism" (Illinois, 2012) |url=https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/robert-d-parmet-review-of-lisa-phillipss-a-renegad |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=History News Network |language=en}} [United Press International](/source/United_Press_International),{{Cite news |date=1973-11-11 |title=From Dallas to Watergate |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/901417656 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[The Monitor](/source/The_Monitor_(Texas)) |pages=19 |language=en}} and International Labor and Working-Class History under the [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press).{{Cite journal |last=Howard |first=Walter T. |date=1999 |title=Review of The United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?; The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27672626 |journal=International Labor and Working-Class History |issue=56 |pages=177–180 |jstor=27672626 |issn=0147-5479}} He has written extensively about labor and unions in 20th-century America, including those of women,{{Cite news |last=Wax |first=Emily |date=1998-09-06 |title=A Driving Force |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/707638732 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[Newsday](/source/Newsday) |pages=156 |language=en}} immigrants,{{Cite news |last=Danyluk |first=Harry |date=1981-12-29 |title=Immigrant Workers |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/486220348 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-09 |work=[New York Daily News](/source/New_York_Daily_News) |pages=101 |language=en}} and of [David Dubinsky](/source/David_Dubinsky).{{Cite news |last=Crowe |first=Kenneth C. |date=1995-02-21 |title=Union's Influence Has Waned |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/725494629 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[Newsday](/source/Newsday) |pages=32 |language=en}} In 1968, he received a $2,000 grant ($18,234.20 USD in 2024) to write a biography on American senator [Chauncey Depew](/source/Chauncey_Depew).{{Cite news |date=1968-05-28 |title=Dr. Parmet Gets Grant to Write on Depew |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/909670284 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[The Reporter Dispatch](/source/The_Reporter_Dispatch) |pages=23 |language=en}} It was published in 1970.{{Cite web |title=DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell (1834-1928) |url=https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=d000264 |access-date=2024-09-08 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |quote=Parmet, Robert D. "The Presidential Fever of Chauncey Depew". ''New-York Historical Society Quarterly'' 54 (July 1970): 269-90.}} Parmet retired from full-time teaching at York College in Spring 2025 after 57 years.{{Cite web |title=Professor Robert Parmet Retires After 57 Years but Continues to Inspire |url=https://www.york.cuny.edu/news/2025/professor-robert-parmet-retires-after-57-years-but-continues-to-inspire |access-date=2025-05-08 |website=York College |language=en-US}} == Personal life == Parmet was born in New York City in 1938. He is the son of Isaac Parmet and Fannie (née Scharf)National Archives at Washington, DC; Washington, D.C.; ''Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950''; Year: ''1950''; Census Place: ''New York, Bronx, New York''; Roll: ''221''; Page: ''20''; Enumeration District: ''3-1791'' and is the brother of American historian [Herbert Parmet](/source/Herbert_Parmet).Year: ''1940''; Census Place: ''New York, Bronx, New York''; Roll: ''m-t0627-02496''; Page: ''11A''; Enumeration District: ''3-1406'' He received a B.A. (1960) from [City College](/source/City_College_of_New_York), and M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University).''Directory of American Scholars'', 6th ed. ([Bowker](/source/R._R._Bowker), 1974), Vol. I, p. 482. He taught at City College while attending Graduate School. His master's thesis, "Cleveland, Blaine, and New York's Irish in the election of 1884," was written under the supervision of [John A. Garraty](/source/John_A._Garraty). His doctoral dissertation, "The Know-Nothings in Connecticut," was written under the supervision of [Eric McKitrick](/source/Eric_McKitrick). Parmet was married to Joan Levy on June 8, 1963.{{Cite news |date=1963-06-12 |title=Robert Parmet Marries at Lincoln Park Center |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/677892277 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[Herald Statesman](/source/Herald_Statesman) |pages=10 |language=en}} She received her Masters in History from [Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University) in 1965.{{Cite news |date=1965-06-10 |title=Mrs. Robert Parmet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/894258152 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=Mount Vernon Argus |pages=6 |language=en}} They have a son, Andrew.{{Cite news |last=Greene |first=Dick |date=1978-09-12 |title=Seen and Heard in Our Neighborhood |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/252514450 |url-access=subscription |access-date=2024-09-08 |work=[The Star Press](/source/The_Star_Press) |pages=4 |language=en}} == Bibliography == === Books === * {{Cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Ira M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arrtAAAAMAAJ&q=nostrand |title=American Nativism, 1830-1860 |last2=Parmet |first2=Robert D. |publisher=Van Nostrand Reinhold |year=1971 |isbn=978-0-44278-188-0|language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYwrAQAAIAAJ&q=twayne |title=Labor and Immigration in Industrial America |date=1981 |publisher=Twayne Publishers |isbn=978-0-80578-418-3|language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h3NuvaqMOhwC |title=The Master of Seventh Avenue: David Dubinsky and the American Labor Movement |publisher=NYU Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-8147-6711-5 |language=en}} * {{Cite book |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v82lcegLd4kC |title=Town and Gown: The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education |date=2011-11-24 |publisher=Lexington Books |isbn=978-1-61147-473-2 |language=en}} === Papers === * Parmet, Robert D. (1966). "Connecticut's [Know-Nothings](/source/Know_Nothing): A Profile." ''[Connecticut Historical Society](/source/Connecticut_Museum_of_Culture_and_History) Bulletin'' '''31''' (3): 84–90. * Parmet, Robert D. (1970). "The Presidential Fever of [Chauncey Depew](/source/Chauncey_Depew)." ''[New York Historical Society](/source/New_York_Historical) Quarterly'' '''54''' (3): 268-290. * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1971 |title=Schools for the Freedmen |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/24766513 |journal=Negro History Bulletin |language=en |volume=34 |issue=6 |pages=128–132 |jstor=24766513 |issn=0028-2529|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1972 |title=Competition for the World's Columbian Exposition: The New York Campaign |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40191202 |journal=Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society |language=en |volume=65 |issue=4 |pages=365–381 |jstor=40191202 |issn=0019-2287|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1982 |title=Labor and Immigration in Industrial America. (Immigrant Heritage of America Series.) |url=https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-lookup/doi/10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177 |journal=The American Historical Review |language=en |volume=87 |issue=4 |doi=10.1086/ahr/87.4.1177 |issn=1937-5239|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Parmet |first1=Robert D. |last2=Papanikolas |first2=Zeese |date=1983 |title=Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-lookup/doi/10.2307/1890597 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=70 |issue=1 |pages=176 |doi=10.2307/1890597|jstor=1890597 |url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1985 |title=Capeci, Dominic J., Jr. Race Relations in Wartime Detroit: The Sojourner Truth Housing Controversy of 1942 |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.7202/1017898ar |journal=Urban History Review |language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=86–87 |doi=10.7202/1017898ar |issn=0703-0428}} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1988 |title=Fishman, Robert. Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia. Gale, Dennis E. Washington, D.C.: Inner-City Revitalization and Minority Suburbanization. |url=https://utpjournals.press/doi/10.7202/1017672ar |journal=Urban History Review |language=en |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=136–137 |doi=10.7202/1017672ar |issn=0703-0428}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Parmet |first1=Robert D. |last2=Marks |first2=Gary |date=1990 |title=Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. |url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-lookup/doi/10.2307/2079272 |journal=The Journal of American History |volume=77 |issue=2 |pages=691 |doi=10.2307/2079272|jstor=2079272 |url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=1999 |title=Peter Kwong, Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese Immigrants and American Labor |url=http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0147547999452883 |journal=International Labor and Working-Class History |volume=56 |pages=175–177 |doi=10.1017/S0147547999452883|url-access=subscription }} * {{Cite journal |last=Parmet |first=Robert D. |date=2018 |title=Clarence Irving and the Rediscovery of Black America |url=https://academicworks.cuny.edu/yc_pubs/209/ |journal=CUNY Academic Works}} == References == == External links == * [https://www.york.cuny.edu/directory/rparmet Robert Parmet at CUNY York] {{Authority control|qid=Q130262515}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Parmet, Robert}} Category:1938 births Category:Writers from the Bronx Category:Educators from New York City Category:The Bronx High School of Science alumni Category:York College, City University of New York faculty Category:Kean University faculty Category:Jewish American academics Category:Jewish American non-fiction writers Category:20th-century American Jews Category:21st-century American Jews Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Living people --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Robert Parmet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parmet) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Parmet?action=history)). 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