A professor of history at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Thomas Dublin is a U.S. social historian with an interest in gender, race and ethnicity, and class in the working-class experience. His research has focused on both the industrial revolution in nineteenth-century New England and deindustrialization in the Middle Atlantic region in the twentieth century. His most recent book, coauthored with Walter Licht, is The Face of Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century (2005). For twelve years he has coedited the online journal/website/database, "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000," a major resource in U.S. women's history (http://womhist.alexanderstreet.com/). He also works with middle- and high-school teachers as part of the "Teaching American History" grant program.

Lecture topics:

• The Anthracite Miners' New Deal: The Thirties
• Gender and Industrial Decline in the Anthracite Region of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Women's History and the World Wide Web--New Possibilities
• The World Wide Web in Research and Teaching--Revolutionary Possibilities
• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000: The Website
• Sarah G. Bagley and the Ten Hour Movement in New England
  

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