2008-2009
April 6, 2009 , 4:30-6:00PM
Michael Bernstein, Provost and Professor of History, Tulane University
"The Great Depression: Causes and Effects, 1929-1939: With an Overview of the Causes of the Great Crash of 2008"
Bernstein, author of "The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America , 1929-1930," will offer a more historical perspective of the crisis by drawing parallels between it and the Great Depression. Provost and Professor of History at Tulane University , Bernstein is an emincent economic historian whose work examines the interactions between politics, the economy, and expert knowledge in modern American history. He is also the author of "A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth Century America," a history of economics as a discipline and its shortcomings, and has co-edited a number of volumes, including "Understanding Economic Decline" and “The Cold War and Expert Knowledge: New Essays on the History of the National Security State ."
2004-2005
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)
