Who is milton meltzer

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Thank you for visiting Publishers Weekly. There are 3 possible reasons you were unable to login and get access our premium online pages. You may cancel at any time with no questions asked. The column ends with a quote from Milton Meltzer which rings as true today as when he wrote it in A chapter from this out of print book is now available online. Therefore we are pleased that his estate has allowed us to reprint a chapter from one of his books to share with teachers at the Zinn Education Project website.

This reading is now available for teachers to download to use on its own, Traitors—Or Martyrs , or with with the U. Mexico War Tea Party lesson. Your email address will not be published.

Search for:. La Guerra con Mexico Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow. Translated by Floralba Vivas. Rethinking Schools. Handout in Spanish for the U. Mexico War Tea Party. By Alan J. Meltzer became a writer for the Works Project Administration, a program designed by the Federal Government to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed during the Great Depression.

Meltzer wed Hilda "Hildy" Balinky on June 22, While traveling the country for Pfizer, Meltzer did research at historical societies, local archives and museums and collected nearly 1, illustrations to begin a career writing history books with a focus on social justice.

The Meltzers had two daughters and two grandsons. Hildy Meltzer died in Meltzer most recently lived in New York City where he died at the age of 94 from esophageal cancer.

Writing Meltzer's books often chronicled struggles for freedom, such as the American Revolution, the antislavery movement of the nineteenth-century United States, and the movement against antisemitism. He wrote several biographies, including ones of Langston Hughes and Thomas Jefferson, and though most of his books are nonfiction, he wrote at least one historical novel, The Underground Man , about a white abolitionist in the s United States who is imprisoned for helping escaped slaves.