Mike Wallace is an American historian. He is currently the director of the Gotham Center for New York City History. He is also Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, where he has taught since 1971.
Wallace received a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. In 1999, he won the Pulitzer Prize for History, along with co-author Edwin G. Burrows, for Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. In 2000, he was a consultant for the PBS series New York: A Documentary Film, in which he also appeared. He is also the founder, copublisher, and coeditor of the Radical History Review.
Wallace is also the author of the 1996 publication, "Mickey Mouse History", which is a collection of essays concerning American History. This book includes a masterful account of the "Battle of Enola Gay" entailing the feud over how to accurately represent the history of the dropping of the atomic bomb.
Wallace is working on a sequel to Gotham on his own. It will cover the history of New York City from 1898 through the Second World War.[1]
He is currently married to Carmen Boullosa, a leading Mexican poet, novelist and playwright.
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