W. J. Rorabaugh
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W.J. (William Joseph) Rorabaugh 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 The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1979), The Craft Apprentice: From Franklin to the Machine Age in America (Oxford University Press, 1986), Berkeley at War: The 1960s (Oxford University Press, 1989), and Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is also co-author of the textbook America's Promise: A Concise History of the United States (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) with Donald T. Critchlow and Paula Baker.
In July 2006 he became president of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society.
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