Elizabeth Hinton facts for kids

Elizabeth Hinton (born June 26, 1983) is an American historian. She teaches history, African American Studies, and law at Yale University. She also teaches at Yale Law School. Her work helps us understand why poverty and unfair treatment based on race continued in the United States during the 1900s. In 2022, Elizabeth Hinton was chosen to join the American Philosophical Society.

About Elizabeth Hinton

Elizabeth Hinton was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She earned her Ph.D. in United States History from Columbia University in 2013.

Before teaching at Yale, she was a professor at Harvard University. There, she taught in the History and African and African American Studies departments. She also worked as a scholar at the University of Michigan. Today, she lives in New Haven with her family.

Her Writing and Research

Elizabeth Hinton has written many articles. Her work has appeared in important history magazines. She has also written opinion pieces for major newspapers. These include The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Her 2016 book is called From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime. In this book, she looks at how crime and poverty are connected. She explains that this link goes back many years. She writes about early efforts to stop youth crime. She also discusses the "War on Poverty" and "War on Crime" programs. These programs happened during the time Lyndon B. Johnson was president. She also writes about the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974.

Books by Elizabeth Hinton

• America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, New York: Liveright, 2021. ISBN: 9781631498909
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780674979826,
• Co-edited with Manning Marable, The New Black History: Revisiting the Second Reconstruction, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN: 9781403977779