Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He has written numerous books, including The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1992), The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1995), Liberalism and its Discontents (1998), and American History: A Survey (11th edition, 2002). He is currently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce.

Lecture topics:

• What Happened to Containment?
• The Subversive Fifties
• The Great Depression: Then and Now
• Evolution and Intelligent Design: An American Controversy

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