Kevin Boyle

Kevin Boyle (born October 7, 1960, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian and author specializing in 20th-century U.S. history, particularly the intersections of race, class, labor, and politics. His most notable works include Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age (2004), which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, as well as The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995) and The Shattering: America in the 1960s (2021). He is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and others.