James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well as the history of medicine, race relations, and education. His publications include America in the Twentieth Century (5th ed., 2000); The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture (1987); Bancroft Prize winner, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996); America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000); Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001); and Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to 9/11 (2005).

Lecture topics:

• The U.S.A. from Watergate to 9/11
• Black Family Life, 1960s to the Present
• The Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision on Race Relations and Schools

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