Dr. David Hamilton Golland is an American historian and the author of Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024, 2026), A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2019, 2024), and Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011).
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Biography
Golland was born in 1971 in New York City and raised on Union Square in the borough of Manhattan. He attended P.S. 234 (riding the schoolbus with Etan Patz), I.S. 70, and LaGuardia High School. He served in the United States Army during the Gulf War and was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri and at Artillery Kaserne, Neckarsulm, near Heilbronn, Germany. He holds a BA in Comparative American and European History from Baruch College, an MA in American History from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in United States History (minor field in Latin American History) from the CUNY Graduate Center.
Wikipedia pages
- Wikipedia: How to edit constructively (A Golland Talk Page entry republished by another user, and open to editing)
- Journey (band) (full rewrite 2008)
- Bath Beach, Brooklyn (full rewrite 2010)
- Coney Island Creek (full rewrite 2010)
- Park Slope Food Coop (full rewrite 2010)
- CUNY Graduate Center (rewrite 2008)
- Revised Philadelphia Plan
- Robert C. Weaver
- Gravesend, Brooklyn
- American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (created page 2020)
Golland does not edit the Arthur Fletcher page except to revert vandalism or correct mistakes. He also does not edit his own Wikipedia entry to avoid again running afoul of WP:COI (which he inadvertently did by creating it).