Stephen Nissenbaum

Stephen Nissenbaum is professor of history emeritus at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and adjunct professor of history at the University of Vermont. In addition to The Battle for Christmas (1996), he has written Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America (1980) and Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft (1974, co-authored with Paul Boyer and a finalist for the National Book Award as well as winner of the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association). The Battle for Christmas was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in History.