David Stebenne is Professor of history and law at Ohio State University and a specialist in modern American political and legal history. He has published political commentary in The Conversation, the Huffington Post, The New Republic, The Observer, and Salon and has appeared on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered to discuss politics, the economy, and labor issues.

David is the author of Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929 - 1968.