Daniel T. Rodgers is Henry Charles Lea Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches American cultural and intellectual history. His award-winning books include The Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920 (1978); Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics since Independence (1987); and Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (1998). He currently at work on a history of social ideas in 1980s America.

Lecture topics:

• Losing Power: Social Ideas in 1980s America
• Beyond the Nation State: Transnationalizing U.S. History

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