Irwin Unger (May 2, 1927 – May 21, 2021) was an American historian and academic specializing in economic history, the history of the 1960s, and the history of theGilded Age. He earned his Ph.D. fromColumbia University in 1958 and was Professor Emeritus of History atNew York University.

Irwin Unger was born inNew York City on May 2, 1927. He was married to author and journalist Debi Unger;^[1] they collaborated on several books.^[2]

Unger won thePulitzer Prize for History in 1965 for his book,The Greenback Era. One of his last books, written in collaboration with Stanley Hirshson, aQueens College historian, and Debi Unger, an editor atHarperCollins, is a 2014 biography ofGeorge Marshall.^[3]

Unger died on May 21, 2021, at the age of 94.^[4]

Among Unger's published books are:^[5]

• George Marshall, (with Debi Unger and Stanley Hirshson, 2014)
• The Guggenheims: A Family History, (with Debi Unger, 2005)
• LBJ : A Life, (with Debi Unger, 1999)
• The Times Were a Changin': The Sixties Reader (with Debi Unger, 1998)
• The Best of Intentions: TheGreat Society Programs of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1996)
• Turning Point, 1968, (with Debi Unger, 1988)
• These United States: The Questions of Our Past (1978)
• The Vulnerable Years: The United States, 1896-1917 (1977)
• The Movement: The American New Left 1959-1973 (1973)
• The Greenback Era (1964)

In addition, Unger wrote a number of textbooks on modernAmerican history.

• Faculty Profile of Irwin Unger, New York University
• Appearances onC-SPAN

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