Mike Wallace (historian)

Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace, 2017
Born	(1942-07-22) July 22, 1942 (age 81) New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality (legal)	American
Education	Columbia University (BA, PhD)
Occupation	Historian
Notable work	Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 co-author Edwin G. Burrows, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, Mickey Mouse History and other essays on American Memory
Spouse	Hope Cooke (divorced) Carmen Boullosa ​ (m. 2004)​
Awards	Pulitzer Prize for History (1999)

Mike Wallace (born July 22, 1942) is an American historian. He specializes in the history of New York City, and in the history and practice of "public history". In 1998 he co-authored Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which in 1999 won the Pulitzer Prize in History. In 2017, he published a successor volume, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919. Wallace is a Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York), and at the CUNY Graduate Center.