W. J. Rorabaugh

W.J. (William Joseph) Rorabaugh is an American historian. He is a professor of history at the University of Washington and the managing editor of "Pacific Northwest Quarterly". Educated at Stanford and UC Berkeley, he is a prolific book reviewer and the author of several books, including "The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition", a study of American alcohol consumption during the Early Republic and "Berkeley at War: The 1960s", a study of the unrest on the Berkeley campus of the University of California during the era of the Free Speech Movement.

Among contemporary academic historians, the breadth of his expertise and scholarly publication is unusual, ranging from the late 18th to the late 20th century.

In July 2006 he became president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.

Books authored

* "Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties" (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
* "Berkeley at War: The 1960s" (Oxford University Press, 1989)
* "The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America" (Oxford University Press, 1986)
* "The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition" (Oxford University Press, 1979)

Books co-authored

*With Donald T. Critchlow and Paula Baker "America's Promise: A Concise History of the United States" (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)