Joanne Reitano

Joanne Reitano is History Professor Emerita at La Guardia Community College, CUNY. She earned a BA from Vassar and a PhD from NYU. Her publications include The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age , The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present , and The Restless City Reader. Her biography of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is forthcoming.

Joanne Reitano is History Professor Emerita at La Guardia Community College, CUNY. She earned a BA from Vassar and a PhD from NYU. Her publications include The Tariff Question in the Gilded Age , The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present , and The Restless City Reader. Her biography of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is forthcoming. See less