Mike Wallace.

About Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace was an American historian who specialized in the history of New York City, and in the practice of "public history". In 1998, Wallace co-authored Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1999. In 2017, he published a successor volume, Greater Gotham: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, and in 2025 he published a third volume, Gotham at War: A History of New York City from 1933 to 1945. Wallace was a Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and at the CUNY Graduate Center.