Ron Briley

Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for thirty years. He is author of Class at Bat, Gender on Deck, and Race in the Hole (2003) and coeditor of James T. Farrell's Dreaming Baseball (2007) and All Stars and Movie Stars (2008). In 2007, he was awarded a fellowship by the Woody Guthrie Foundation and is currently working on a book dealing with the folksinger's politics. His teaching has earned recognition from the Organization of American Historians, Society for History Education, and American Historical Association.

Lecture topics:

• Amity Is the Key to Success: Baseball and the Cold War
• Woodrow Wilson Guthrie and Indigeneous Radicalism
• American History as Viewed Through the Lens of Hollywood
• The Limits of Dissent: Baseball and the Vietnam Experience
• Film and History: Incorporating Film into the History Classroom
  

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