Rob Goldberg

Rob Goldberg is an American cultural historian, educator, and award-winning author. He holds a PhD in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and is currently Head of the History Department at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia.

Goldberg's first book "Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children's Toys in 1960s and 1970s America" won the 2024 Lawrence Levine Award for Best Book in American cultural history from the Organization of American Historians and the 2024 Ray & Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work from the Popular Culture Association. His work has been featured in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and the Los Angeles Times, and he has been a guest on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show and Chris Byrne's Playground Podcast. He appears on the History Channel's "Toys That Built America" and the documentary "Barbie Uncovered".