Joseph Palermo

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Joseph Palermo
BornJanuary 27, 1959
OccupationProfessor of
United States History
The 1960s
Robert F. Kennedy
SpouseJannette Dayton Palermo
Website
josephapalermo.com

Joseph A. Palermo (born January 27, 1959) is an associate professor of history at

Sacramento State University
, an author and a commentator.

He received his undergraduate degree in

UC Santa Cruz in 1984, a master's degree in history from San Jose State University in 1986 and a master's and doctorate in American history (minor fields: anthropology and modern Latin America) from Cornell University in 1998.[1] The Politics of Race and War: Robert F. Kennedy and the Democratic Party, 1965-1968 was the title of his dissertation.[2]

For four years after receiving his doctorate, Palermo taught at Cornell and Colgate University. Since 2002, he teaches classes on the 1960s, the Vietnam War, foreign relations, historiography, and the history and politics of the 20th century at Sacramento State University in Sacramento, California.

His expertise includes

American foreign policy
.

Palermo makes frequent contributions to the

Huffington Post, the online social justice magazine LA Progressive and Common Dreams. His articles have been primarily liberal in outlook and critical of former U.S. President George W. Bush
.

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