David M. P. Freund

David Freund is an historian of the modern United States and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His first book, COLORED PROPERTY (2007) received the 2007 Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association, the 2009 Best Book Award from the Urban Affairs Association, and the 2008 Ellis W. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians. Other publications include THE MODERN AMERICAN METROPOLIS: A DOCUMENTARY READER (2015) and "Monetary Dissent and the Erasure of State Power in American History," in Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray, eds., THE ELGAR COMPANION TO MODERN MONETARY THEORY (2024). He is at work on a documentary entitled AMERICAN FREEDOMS.