Kevin M. Kruse

MSNBC Columnist

Kevin M. Kruse is a professor of history at Princeton University. A specialist in modern American political, social and urban/suburban history, he is the author and editor of several books, including “White Flight” (2005), “One Nation Under God” (2015) and “Fault Lines: A History of the United States since 1974” (2019). He grew up in Nashville, Tennessee, and earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University.


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Kevin M. Kruse

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