Pete Daniel is a curator in the division of work and industry at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He specializes in the history of the twentieth-century South, in particular rural life and labor, pesticides, popular culture, and civil rights. He has curated exhibits that deal with science, photography, and music. His most recent book is Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health in the Post-World War II South (2005). Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000) won the OAH Elliott Rudwick Prize. He is president of OAH and past president of the Southern Historical Association.

Lecture topics:

• Regenerating Southern Culture in the 1950s
• Tobacco Culture: Marion Post Wolcott's FSA Photographs (with images)
• African American Farmers and Civil Rights
• Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health, 1945-1970

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