[1] Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ.
Father: John Patrick O'Neill (oil wildcatter)
Mother: Helen Elizabeth Marsh (teacher)
Brother: Dan
Wife: Elizabeth Carol Knollmueller (until his death, two daughters)
Daughter: Cassandra Leigh
Daughter: Catherine Lorraine
University: BA, University of Michigan (1957)
University: MA, University of California at Berkeley (1958)
University: PhD History, University of California at Berkeley (1963)
Assistant Professor: University of Colorado (1964-66)
Associate Professor: University of Wisconsin-Madison (1966-71)
Professor: History, Rutgers University (1971-2006)
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Author of books:
Divorce in the Progressive Era (1967, history)
Everyone Was Brave: A History of Feminism in America (1969, history)
Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960's (1971, history)
The Last Romantic: A Life of Max Eastman (1978, biography)
A Better World: The Great Schism: Stalinism and the American Intellectuals (1982, intellectual history)
American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960 (1986, history)
A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II (1993, history)
The New Left: A History (2001, politics)
A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001 (2009, history)
