Polenberg, Richard.

Emeritus professor of American History, Cornell University.

Polenberg came to Cornell in 1966 and is a recipient of the Clark Distinguished Teaching Award and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He has offered seminars on Justice Cardozo and the judicial process and has written books on American History, the Constitution, Robert Oppenheimer, Benjamin Cardozo, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Abrams, class, race, and ethnicity in the United States, and war and society.

From the guide to the Richard Polenberg papers, 1961-2000, (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library)