ABSTRACT

Framing the Questions: An Interview with Robert Cohen, conducted by Rachel Mattson Robert Cohen is a social studies professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning and an a‰liated professor in the History Department at New York University. He is the author of When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941 (1993), editor of  Dear Mrs Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression (2002), coeditor of The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (2002), and author of Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (2009).