A prizewinning historian, he, along and his wife, Abigail, was a conservative opponent of racial preferences, favoring school ...

With his wife, Abigail, the Harvard professor spent much of his career studying social mobility and the American Dream ...

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Stephan Thernstrom, a prizewinning historian who rose to national attention during the culture wars of the 1990s when he and his wife, political scientist Abigail Thernstrom, joined conservatives ...

She is also the co-author, with Stephan Thernstrom, of America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. Racial integration 50 years after MLK’s speech. A review of Intellectuals and Race ...