Harris, Sheldon H.

Biographical Note

• 1928 August 22: Born, Brooklyn, New York
• 1949: A.B. (cum laude), Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
• 1950: A.M., Harvard University
• 1955: Married Sheila J. Black
• 1957 - 1958 : Instructor in history, Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York)
• 1958: Ph.D., Columbia University, New York
• 1958 - 1963 : Associate professor of social science, Bradford Durfee College of Technology (now Southeastern Massachusetts University), Bradford, Massachusetts
• 1962: Recipient, Roger Benjamin Foundation Award
• 1963 - 1964 : Recipient, American Council of Learned Societies research grant
• 1963 - 1966 : Assistant professor, California State University, Northridge
• 1966: Visiting professor, University of California, Los Angeles
• 1966 - 1969 : Associate professor, California State University, Northridge
• 1969 - 1991 : Professor of history, California State University, Northridge
• 1971: Recipient, American Philosophical Society grant for research in England
• 1972: Author, Paul Cuffe: Black America and the African Return Author, President Johnson's Decision to Intervene in Vietnam
• 1973: Author, Prohibition
• 1979: Author, Blue's Who's Who: A Biographical Dictionary of Blues Singers
• 1986: Author, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues: An Autography
• 1994: Author, Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up
• 1996: Author,Writers Directory
• 2002 August 31: Died, Los Angeles, California

From the guide to the Sheldon H. Harris Papers, 1942-2002, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)