Jonathan Zimmerman is an American historian of education who is a Professor of History of Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.^[1]

Zimmerman graduated from Columbia College in 1983, where he was the editor-in-chief of Columbia Daily Spectator.^[2] He earned an M.A. in history in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history in 1993, both from Johns Hopkins University.^[3] He taught for 20 years at New York University, where he was chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.^[3]

Though being a social liberal, he champions unrestricted freedom of speech for all, including conservatives.^[4]

• Zimmerman, Jonathan (April 20, 1999). Distilling Democracy: Alcohol Education in America's Public Schools, 1880–1925. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0700609451.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (November 30, 2005). Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-04544-6.^[5][6][7][8]
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (October 31, 2006). Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674023611.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (February 22, 2015). Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-17366-5.^[9][10]
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (September 7, 2016). Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know® (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0190627393.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan; Robertson, Emily (April 24, 2017). The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226456201.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (October 27, 2020). The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421439099.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (April 1, 2021). Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn. Illustrated by Signe Wilkinson. City of Light Publishing. ISBN 978-1952536106.
• Zimmerman, Jonathan (August 26, 2022). Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226820392.