Mark Robert Schneider

Mark Robert Schneider

5 books

About the Author

Mark Robert Schneider is a historian and biographer whose work explores race, civil rights, politics, sexuality, and American public life. Through carefully researched narratives, he brings overlooked figures, movements, and civic struggles into sharper focus, connecting archival history with questions that remain urgent today. His books include "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age, Boston Confronts Jim Crow, 1890-1920, Disconnect: Why Americans Don't Understand the World and How We Can Learn, Gerry Studds: America's First Openly Gay Congressman, and Joe Moakley's Journey. Schneider’s scholarship is distinguished by its clarity, depth, and humane attention to individual experience.

Writing style
scholarly clear empathetic

Books by Mark Robert Schneider