Dr. John Hinshaw

John Hinshaw

Professor of History

Email: hinshaw@lvc.edu

Phone: 717-867-6359

Office Location: Humanities 307-C

B.A., Macalester College; M.A., Carnegie Mellon University; Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University

Expertise:
The past and present of American politics, Pennsylvania history and politics, Latinos in Pennsylvania  

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.

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