2010-2011
April 21, 2011
Jefferson Cowie, COrnell University
A Nation without Class: The 1970s and the Origins of Our Own Time
DATE: Thursday, April 21st
TIME: 1:00 - 2:30PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
For more information, please contact the History Department.
October 26, 2010
Barbara Clark Smith, Curator in the Division of Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Declarations of Interdependence and the Patriot Economy: Rethinking the Revolution
DATE: Tuesday, October 26th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room , McNeil Center (34th and Sansom St )
Barbara Clark Smith is Curator in the Division of Political History, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, and author of After the Revolution and the forthcoming The Freedoms We Lost.
For more information, please contact the History Department.
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2009-2010
January 20, 2010
Margot Canaday, Assistant Professor of History, Princeton University
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America
DATE: Wednesday, January 20th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: Stephanie Grauman Wolf Room , McNeil Center (34th and Sansom St )
Dr. Canaday is a legal and political historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America . Her talk will be based on her recently published book, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton University Press, 2009). The Straight State examines military, immigration, and welfare policy to ask how homosexuality came to be a meaningful category for the federal state over the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program
November 10, 2009
Susan M. Reverby, Marion Butler McLean Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
Examining the 'Tuskegee' Syphilis Study: What More Can an Historian Say?
DATE: Tuesday, November 10th
TIME: 4:30 PM
LOCATION: College Hall 209
Susan M. Reverby has been a pioneer in U.S. women's history, and has written extensively on the history of nursing, health care, and medical ethics. Her publications include Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (l987), Gendered Domains: Beyond the Public and Private in Women's History (1992), Health Care in America : Essays in Social History (1979), and America 's Working Women: a Documentary History (1976). An edited collection of articles and documents entitled Tuskegee 's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study appeared in 2000. Her latest book is Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Legacy, published this fall by the University of North Carolina Press.
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)
