Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933 – October 23, 2006) was an American historian.
He was noted for promoting multiculturalism and the perspectives of ordinary people in the study of history.
He graduated from the City College of New York in 1955, and from Columbia University, with a master's degree and a doctorate in 1962, where he studied under Richard Hofstadter.
[1] He participated in civil rights sit-ins at Berkeley and in the South, and the Free Speech Movement.
He was president of the Organization of American Historians in 1992–93 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994.