Arthur Rosengarten Arthur Rosengarten

Theodore Rosengarten, born December 17, 1944, is an American historian who earned his BA from Amherst College and his PhD from Harvard University. His doctoral research focused on Ned Cobb, an Alabama tenant farmer. Rosengarten transformed his interviews with Cobb into a book, "All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw," which was published in 1974 and received the U.S. National Book Award for Contemporary Affairs. This work was later adapted into a one-man play starring Cleavon Little.

Rosengarten's other published works include "Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter" (1986), "Land of Deepest Shade: Photographs of the South" (1989), "A Portion of the People: Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life" (2002), and "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art" (2008). He was recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989. His academic and literary contributions span historical biography, photography, and the study of Southern culture and African art.