Researching and Writing with Details in Mind

Bryant Simon is Professor of History and Academic Chair of the University Honors Program at Temple University. He is the author of several books, including: Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (Oxford University Press, 2004), Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (University of California Press, 2009), and, most recently, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives (The New Press, 2017). He has edited, with Jane Dailey and Glenda Gilmore, "Jumpin' Jim Crow": Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (Princeton University Press, 2001), and, with Juergen Martschukat, Food, Power, and Agency (Bloomsbury, 2017). He currently is working on a history of the public bathroom. Simon holds a BA and PhD in History from the University of North Carolina.