2004-2005
The Department will host three prominent U.S. historians as part of the Richard Shryock Lecture series in American History. All of them will give talks and meet with graduate students as part of their visit. Please mark your calendars! More details will be coming soon. All talks will take place in College Hall 209, the History Lounge.
Organizers:
Tom Sugrue
Kathy Peiss
Steven Hahn
March 17, 2005, Noon
Mary Renda, Mount Holyoke College
"Pickering's Plea: Race, Gender, and the Culture of American Empire in the New Republic"
Renda is a leading cultural historian of American empire and a prize-winning teacher. She is author of Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915 - 1940 (2001), winner of the 2002 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize in diplomatic history. She is currently writing a book on the uses of U.S. imperialism between the 1920s and 1940s.
April 8, 2005, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Jonathan Prude, Emory University
"The Passing of Walter Wyckoff: A Journey into America"
Prude is a leading nineteenth-century US social and cultural historian. He is author of The Coming of Industrial Order (1983/1999), co-editor (with Steve Hahn) of the Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation, and author of a forthcoming book, The Appearance of Class: The Visual Presence of American Working People from the Revolution to World War I.
April 14, 2005, 4:30 pm
Kevin Boyle, Ohio State University
"Arc of Justice: The Sweet Case and the Course of Civil Rights"
Boyle, a leading twentieth-century historian, won the 2004 National Book Award for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age. Also a prizewinning teacher, he is author or editor of three other books and more than a dozen articles on a wide range of topics including labor, race and gender, and American foreign policy.
2003-2004
March 23, 2004, 4:30-6:00PM
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Harvard University
"Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History"
Lynch Room, Chemistry (231 S. 34th Street, First Floor)
