Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. She specializes in U.S. cultural and social history since the Civil War. Dumenil is author of The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s (1995) and Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 (1984); and coauthor of Through Women’s Eyes: An American History. She is currently studying American women and World War I.

Lecture topics:

• World War I, Voluntarism, and Citizenship
• Women, World War I, and the Emergence of Modern America
• The “New Woman” in the 1920s
• Rethinking the “Feminine Mystique”: American Women in the 1950s
• Multicultural Approaches to U.S. History: Ethnic Conflict in the 1920s
• Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930

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