U.S. History: Post-1945 US history, urban history, history of technology, public policy, human subjects regulations, riot control
Zachary M. Schrag [silent c, rhymes with bag] studies cities, technology, and public policy in the United States in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
He is the author of two books, The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, and Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009, both of them published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Two more books are scheduled for 2021: The Princeton Guide to Historical Research, to be published by Princeton University Press, and The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation, to be published by Pegasus Books.
Schrag’s articles have been published in the Journal of Policy History, the Journal of Urban History, Research Ethics, Rethinking History, Technology and Culture, and Washington History, and his essays have appeared in the American Historian, AHA Perspectives, TR News, the Washington Monthly, and the Washington Post.
He has received grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Gerald Ford Foundation, and the Library of Congress and has been awarded the Society for American City and Regional Planning History’s John Reps Prize and the Journal of Policy History's Ellis Hawley Prize.
The Fires of Philadelphia: Citizen-Soldiers, Nativists, and the 1844 Riots Over the Soul of a Nation, under contract to Pegasus Books.
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research. Princeton University Press, forthcoming, 2021.
Ethical Imperialism: Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965-2009. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.
The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
HNRS 240: Reading the Past
HNRS 353: Technology in the Contemporary World
HIST 615/635: Technology and Power
HIST 623: Recent U.S. History, 1945 to Present
HIST 797: Research Seminar
AB magna cum laude, social studies, Harvard University, 1992
PhD, history, Columbia University, 2002
Alan S. Brody, Peculiar Capitalism: Fast-Food Franchising and Entrepreneurship in Postwar America (2020)
Roger Connor, Rooftops to Rice Paddies: Aerial Utopianism, Helicopters, and the Creation of the National Security State (2020)
Alan Capps, The Antecedents of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1812-1940 (2018)
Ray Clark, A Public Airport for the District of Columbia: The History of Washington Dulles International Airport (2017)
Mary Sullivan Linhart, Up to Date and Progressive: Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia, 1870-1980 (2014)