Robert Cohen is a professor of social studies and history at NYU. He is currently the senior fellow at the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. His most recent books are Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century (2024) and Rethinking America's Past: Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond (2021), co-authored by Sonia E. Murrow.