1. Paul Merlyn Buhle was born on September 27,1944 and is an American historian, who is Senior Lecturer at Brown University, author or editor of 35 volumes, including histories of radicalism in the United States and the Caribbean, studies of popular culture, and a series of nonfiction comic art volumes.
Paul Buhle's mother was a registered nurse with the maiden name of Pearle Drake.
On December 30,1963, Paul Buhle married Mari Jo Kupski, who later earned a doctorate in history and co-authored several works with Buhle.
Paul Buhle graduated in 1966 from the University of Illinois, where he had been a spokesperson for the chapter of Students for a Democratic Society's antiwar activities.
Paul Buhle received a master's degree from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.
Paul Buhle had been active in the civil rights movement in SDS, and a member for some months of the Socialist Labor Party.
Paul Buhle was founding editor of the journal Radical America, an unofficial organ of Students for a Democratic Society, founder of Cultural Correspondence, a journal of popular culture studies, and founder and director of the Oral History of the American Left archive at New York University in 1976.
Paul Buhle produced Vanishing Rhode Island, a pictorial history and plea for preservation; and with his students, Underground Rhode Island.
Paul Buhle has contributed frequently to the journals and newspapers The Nation, The Village Voice, Monthly Review, Jewish Currents, The Chronicle of Higher Education and The San Francisco Chronicle.
Paul Buhle is the co-author of four books on the history of the Hollywood Blacklist, and the editor of a series of graphic non-fiction works by American comics artists and writers, among them Harvey Pekar, Sabrina Jones and Sharon Rudahl.
Paul Buhle is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Paul Buhle has served on the Board of The Minnesota Review, as Contributing Editor to Tikkun, and on the editorial advisory board on Radical Americas.
Paul Buhle has been a sponsor of New Politics and an adviser on documentary biographies of Howard Zinn, comic artist Will Eisner, and Sacco and Vanzetti, and in the 1980s served as historian for the radio series Grandma was an Activist.