Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz papers

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on Jan. 31, 1942, to David Lefkowitz, Jr. a rabbi at Temple B'nai Zion, Shreveport and Leona Atlas Lefkowitz, rebbetzin, tutor in math, informal college counselor, civic worker, community board member, and housewife. Helen received her B.A. from Wellesley College in 1963, and her American Studies Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. She continued learning at MIT, Union College, Scripps College, and the University of Southern California, where she taught before coming to Smith College, where she has been the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History. Horowitz is the author of the following books: Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago from the 1880s to 1917 (1976); Campus Life: Undergraduate Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present (1988); Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s (1993); The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas (1994); Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History in 2003); and The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008), co-authored with Patricia Cline Cohen and Timothy Gilfoyle. She was co-editor of Love Across the Color Line: The Letters of Alice Hanley to Channing Lewis (1996); and editor of Landscape in Sight: J.B. Jackson's America (1997), and Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America (2006). Horowitz enjoys working in a number of fields that connect her interest in American history with women's studies, landscape studies, architecture, education, biography, sexual representation, law, and medicine. She is married to fellow historian, Daniel Horowitz; the couple have two children, Benjamin and Sarah.