Irwin Unger (May 2, 1927 – May 21, 2021) was an American historian and academic specializing in economic history, the history of the 1960s, and the history of the Gilded Age. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1958 and was Professor Emeritus of History at New York University.

Biography

Irwin Unger was born in New York City on May 2, 1927. He was married to author and journalist Debi Unger; they collaborated on several books. Unger won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1965 for his book, The Greenback Era. One of his last books, written in collaboration with Stanley Hirshson, a Queens College historian, and Debi Unger, an editor at HarperCollins, is a 2014 biography of George Marshall. Unger died on May 21, 2021, at the age of 94.

Books

Among Unger's published books are: In addition, Unger has written a number of textbooks on modern American history.