John Hinshaw
Chair of Social Sciences
Professor of History
Professor John Hinshaw has a Ph.D. in History from Carnegie Mellon University where he wrote about the racial and class politics of the steel industry and Pittsburgh. He did a post-docorate at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa and looked at their steel industry’s history. He has taught at Lebanon Valley College since 2000.
Dr. Hinshaw teaches Law and Society, POL 120, on the ways laws reshape society. He also teaches an elective for the Law and Society minor: How Fascism Works.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Data Center Politics Arrive in Small Town PA, RealClear Pennsylvania, May 12, 2026.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Will Shapiro’s PA Success Translate at the National Level, RealClear Pennsylvania, Jan. 27, 2026.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, PA Election Results Signal Danger for the GOP in 2026, RealClear Pennsylvania, Nov. 10, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, video interview, ‘I Am a Dutchirican’: Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Latino USA, May 16, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Will Pennsylvania Allow Midwives to Save Mothers and Babies?, research by Dr. Ivette Guzman-Zavála, RealClear Pennsylvania, Aug. 13, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Improving the Lives of Lebanon County’s Unemployed, RealClear Pennsylvania, July 30, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Mamdani’s Win and Pennsylvania’s Populist Future, RealClear Pennsylvania, July 9, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Latino Pragmatist Runs for Mayor of Lebanon, RealClear Pennsylvania, June 17, 2025.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Voting in Pennsylvania During the Industrial Era, RealClear Pennsylvania, June 4.
Dr. John Hinshaw, op-ed, Voting in the Keystone State: the First 200 Years, RealClear Pennsylvania, May 23.
Steel and Steelworkers: Racial and Class Struggle in Twentieth Century Pittsburgh (SUNY University Press, 2002). “Dutchirican: The Growing Puerto Rican Presence in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country,” Pennsylvania Magazine of HIstory and Biography (2016)
Curated a public history exhibit with Dr. Ivette Guzmán titled: Dutchirican: A History of Latinos in Central Pennsylvania.
- With Justice for All? The History of the US Since 1861.
- The Rise and Decline of the American Middle Class
- Democracy Rising
- The Crisis of American Healthcare
- Foundations of Social Science
- The Politics of Climate Change
- The History of the U.S. to 1877
- Law & Society
- How Fascism Works