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Identify and invite outstanding historians to offer the latest and best in U.S. history research to your audience.

Created in 1981 by OAH president Gerda Lerner, the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program now features more than three hundred and fifty historians who have made major contributions to the study of American history.

Each speaker has agreed to give one lecture on OAH's behalf during the 2009-2010 academic year, designating the lecture fee as a donation to OAH. Lecture fees start at $1,000. The host institution pays the lecture fee to OAH and reimburses the speaker's travel and lodging expenses.

To receive more information or to arrange a lecture, please contact the lectureship program coordinator, ph. 812-855-7311, OAH, P.O. Box 5457, Bloomington, IN 47407- 5457. Make arrangements early for the best chance at obtaining the speaker of your choice.

Catherine Allgor
University of California, Riverside
University of California Presidential Chair and professor of history at the University of California, Riverside, Catherine Allgor teaches classes on early America, politics, and the history of women's lives and gender. Her dissertation on women and politics in early Washington garnered the OAH Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize and, as Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (2000), won the James H. Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Her latest book, A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation (2006), was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize.

Lecture Topics

• Society Ladies and Political Parties: A Study in American Women's History
  
• Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American Nation
• What is this Thing Called "Gender"?
• Remembering the Ladies in the Story of the Founding

Patrick Allitt
Emory University
Born and raised in England, Patrick Allitt came to America in the 1970s to study U.S. history and has been here ever since. He is Goodrich C. White Professor of History and director of the Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum at Emory University. He is author of The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History (2009), I'm the Teacher, You're the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom (2004), and Religion in America Since 1945: A History (2003). He has also lectured widely for the Teaching Company, on cruise ships, and to groups of teachers, senior citizens, alumni, and study groups.

Lecture Topics

• The History of Anglo-American Relations
  
• The Joys and Sorrows of College Teaching
• The History of American Conservatism
• Why Are Americans so Religious?

Felix D. Almaraz Jr.
University of Texas at San Antonio
Felix D. Almaraz Jr. is professor of history at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His books include Knight Without Armor: Carlos Eduardo Castaneda, 1896-1958 (1999). Most recently, he has been working on two books about the missions of San Antonio from eighteenth to the twentieth century. He is former president of the Texas State Historical Association and of the Texas Catholic Historial Society.

Lecture Topics

• Senator Sam Houston of Texas: His Unionist Role in American Politics at Mid-Nineteenth Century (can be delivered Chautauqua style, in period costume, as "An Evening with Senator Sam Houston")
  
• Diplomacy of the Republic of Texas and its Annexation: Prelude to the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848
• The Spanish Borderlands: A Chapter in the Northward Movement of Immigrants into the Transitional Zone of the American Southwest

Gar Alperovitz
University of Maryland, College Park
Gar Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has written on nuclear weapons and the origins of the Cold War and on new possibilities for systemic change in advanced societies. His books include Atomic Diplomacy: Hiroshima and Potsdam (1965), The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb (1995), and America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy. A new book, Unjust Deserts (2008), with Lew Daly, deals with the socially created and inherited sources of wealth and the implications for a new theory of distribution.

Lecture Topics

• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
  
• Long-term Systemic Change in the Twenty-first Century
• Socially Created Wealth and Its Distribution and Maldistribution

Fred Anderson
University of Colorado, Boulder
Fred Anderson has taught early American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1983. He is the author of A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War (1984) and Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (2000); and coauthor, with Andrew Cayton, of The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005). His most recent book, The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War (2005), was the companion volume for the 2006 PBS television series of the same name, for which he also served as a historical advisor. His current project, again with Andrew Cayton, is a general history of North America in the period 1672-1764.

Lecture Topics

• The Seven Years' War and the Making of George Washington
  
• Empire and Liberty in North American History
• The Significance of the Seven Years' War
• The Peace of Paris, 1763
• War and Peace in American History

Virginia DeJohn Anderson
University of Colorado, Boulder
Virginia Anderson has taught early American history at the University of Colorado, Boulder, since 1985. She is author of New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (1992) and Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America (2004). She is also coauthor of the textbook The American Journey (1998; 5th ed., 2009). Her new book project, The Martyr and the Traitor: Taking Sides in the American Revolution, explores the personal as well as political transformations that shaped individual lives in unexpected ways as the Revolutionary crisis unfolded.

Lecture Topics

• Bringing Livestock into the History of Early America
  
• Nathan Hale: Sociability and Patriotism in the American Revolution
• The Ordeal of Moses Dunbar, Connecticut Loyalist

Richard Aquila
Pennsylvania State University, The Behrend College
Richard Aquila is the director of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history at Pennsylvania State University, the Behrend College. He specializes in U.S. social and cultural history and his publications include Home Front Soldier: The Story of a G.I. and His Italian American Family During World War II (1999); Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture (1996); That Old Time Rock and Roll: A Chronicle of An Era, 1954-63 (1989); and The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier, 1701-1754 (1983, 1997). Aquila has also written, produced, and hosted numerous documentaries for NPR. From 1998 to 2000, his weekly public history series, "Rock & Roll America," was syndicated on NPR and NPR Worldwide.

Lecture Topics

• Trail of Freedom: Images of Native Americans in Popular Music
  
• "History You Can Dance To": NPR's "Rock & Roll America" as Public History
• Images of the American West in Popular Culture
• America's Cold War Culture and Rock 'n' Roll
• "Into the Fire": September 11, Popular Music, and Public Memory

David Armitage
Harvard University
David Armitage is Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. A prizewinning teacher and writer, he is author of The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (2000), Greater Britain, 1516-1776: Essays in Atlantic History (2004), and The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (2007). He has also edited or coedited eight books, including The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2nd ed., 2009) and The Age of Revolutions in Global Context, 1760-1840 (2010). Among his current projects are an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings and a history of ideas of civil war from Rome to Iraq.

Lecture Topics

• John Locke and America
  
• Globalizing the Declaration of Independence
• The American Revolution in Global Perspective
• The Idea of Civil War from Rome to Iraq

Erica Armstrong Dunbar
University of Delaware
Erica Armstrong Dunbar focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African American women's history. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City (2008) is the first book to chronicle the lives of African American women in the North during the early years of the Republic and the years leading to the Civil War. A Philadelphia native, she is associate professor of history at the University of Delaware.

Lecture Topics

• African American Women's History
  
• African Americans in Philadelphia
• Slavery and Freedom in the North

Eric Arnesen
The George Washington University
Eric Arnesen, professor of history at the George Washington University, specializes in race, labor, and civil rights. He is author of Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality (2001), Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923 (1991), and Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2002), and is editor or coeditor of four other books. A regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune, he received the James Friend Memorial Award for Literary Criticism. He is currently writing a biography of civil rights and labor leader A. Philip Randolph.

Lecture Topics

• The Legacies of A. Philip Randolph: Civil Rights, Labor, and the New Black Politics
  
• The Divided Homefront: African American Politics and Protest During World War I and World War II
• African Americans and the Great Migration
• Myths of Solidarity: Race, the African American Labor Tradition, and the History of American Labor
• African American History, the Left, and Anticommunism

Stephen Aron
University of California, Los Angeles, and Autry National Center
Stephen Aron, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and executive director of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center, is a specialist in frontier and western American history. He is author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay (1996) and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State (2005), and coauthor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present (2002, 2008). He is currently writing a book tentatively entitled Can We All Just Get Along: An Alternative History of the American West.

Lecture Topics

• The Legacy of Concord in the American West
  
• The Lives and Afterlives of Lewis and Clark
• Returning the West to the World
• The Newest Western History

Raymond O. Arsenault
University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Raymond O. Arsenault is John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History and codirector of the Florida studies program at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Author of two prizewinning books on Southern politics and society as well as the classic essay “The End of the Long Hot Summer,” Arsenault has written and lectured on a wide variety of topics related to regional culture. His most recent books are Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice (2006) and Paradise Lost? The Environmental History of Florida (2005), coedited Jack E. Davis.

Lecture Topics

• Freedom Riders
  
• The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture
• The Public Storm: Hurricanes and the Environmental History of Modern America
• The Folklore of Southern Demagoguery
• Look Away, Disneyland: Walt Disney and Southern History
• The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert that Awakened America

Edward L. Ayers
University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers is president and professor of history at the University of Richmond. An historian of the American South, Ayers has written and edited ten books, including The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (1992) and In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863 (2003) winner of the Bancroft and Beveridge Prizes. An early proponent of digital history with “The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Ayers continues to work in the field, focusing on visualization of social processes across space and time.

Lecture Topics

• What Lincoln Was Up Against
  
• Seeing History: Experiments in Digital History

Robert Bain
University of Michigan
Bob Bain is associate professor of history education in the University of Michigan's School of Education. A veteran high school history teacher, Bain studies teaching and learning of history across a variety of instructional settings, including classrooms, museums, and with technology. His research focuses on students learning history or teachers learning to teach history. His most recent publications include "'They Thought the World Was Flat?' Principles in Teaching High School History" in How Students Learn: History, Math, and Science in the Classroom (2005) and "Rounding Up Unusual Suspects: Facing Authority Hidden the History Classroom" in Teachers College Record.

Lecture Topics

• History in Our Schools: Where Is It? Where Has It Been?
  
• Where Are the Kids?: Students as Historical Thinkers
• Toward a Logic of History Teaching: Teaching History as Thinking Practice
• Teachers, Judges, Therapists, and "Problem" Boys: A Story of Complementary and Competing Practices, 1880-1940

Gordon Morris Bakken
California State University, Fullerton
Gordon Morris Bakken is professor of history at California State University, Fullerton. He has taught American legal and constitutional history, westward movement, California history, American military heritage, women's history, historical thinking, and historical writing as well as real estate, land use, and environmental law. He is author, most recently, of The Mining Law of 1872 (2008) and Icons of the American West (2008); coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (2003) and the Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (2006); and coauthor of World History: A Concise Thematic Analysis (2007) and, with Brenda Farrington, Women Who Kill Men: California Courts, Gender, and the Press (2009). He has served as president of Phi Alpha Theta and was founding vice president and director of the California Supreme Court Historical Society.

Lecture Topics

• Legal History of the American West
  
• The Mining Law of 1872
• Crime in the West
• Women who Kill Men
• Death Penalty

Elliott Barkan
California State University, San Bernardino, emeritus
Elliott Barkan's work in contemporary immigration uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore not only who has come but who has remained and what experiences newcomers have had in their efforts to integrate into American society, what obstacles have they encountered, and what they have contributed to American society and culture. He is professor emeritus of history at California State University, San Bernardino, and author, most recently, of From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952 (2007). He has lectured in fourteen countries, frequently comparing their experiences with America's. He is currently editing a four-volume encyclopedia on U.S. immigration.

Lecture Topics

• The Six Revolutions in American Immigration History
  
• From All Points: The Impact of Immigration on the American West
• Illegal, Undocumented, Unauthorized, Irregular . . . But Unnecessary or Essential?: Immigrants and American Policies
  
• Coming to Your Local Community: Myths and Mysteries Regarding the Integration of Immigrants in American Society

Mia Bay
Rutgers University
Mia Bay is associate professor of history at Rutgers University, and the associate director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. An intellectual historian who focuses on African American history, she is author of The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas About White People 1830-1925 (2000), as well as the recent biography To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (2009). She is currently writing a book on African American ideas about Thomas Jefferson and has also begun to research a new project on the social history of segregated transportation.

Lecture Topics

• "If Iola was a Man:" Gender, Politics, and Pubic Protest in the Life of Ida B. Wells
  
• "Like a Lady": Female Travelers in the Jim Crow South
• "The Ambidexter Philosopher": Thomas Jefferson in Free Black Political Thought
• Using the Internet to Teach African American History

Gail Bederman
University of Notre Dame
Gail Bederman is associate professor of history and of gender studies at the University of Notre Dame. An award-winning teacher, she specializes in the history of women, gender, and sexuality in the United States. Her current research centers on the earliest precursors of the English and American reproductive rights movement, from William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and T.R. Malthus through Fanny Wright and Madame Restell. She is author of Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (1995).

Lecture Topics

• Contraception and its Advocates in the USA, 1831-1965: A Revisionist History
  
• Contraception and its Advocates in the USA before Margaret Sanger: A Revisionist History
• Revisiting Frances Wright's Nashoba: Slavery, Sex, and Liberty in Tennessee, 1825-27
• Why the History of Sexuality in the USA Should Be Taught at Catholic Colleges and Universities: A Report from the Classroom

Thomas Bender
New York University
Thomas Bender is University Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at New York University. His work has focused on the history of cities, intellectuals, and academic disciplines, and he has been honored with the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Currently, he is exploring ways of developing narratives of American history, the subject of the La Pietra Report (2000) and Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002). Most recently, he is the coauthor of The Education of Historians for the Twenty-first Century (2004), author of A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in World History (2006), and coeditor of The Transformation of American Higher Education, 1945-2000: Documenting the National Discourse (2008).

Lecture Topics

• Rethinking American History in a Global Age
  
• Putting U.S. History into World History
• New York and the Culture of Creativity

Michael A. Bernstein
Tulane University
Michael A. Bernstein is senior vice president for academic affairs and provost of Tulane University where he also serves as a professor of history and economics. A recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California-San Diego, where he previously taught for almost two decades, his research and teaching interests focus on the economic and political history of the United States, macroeconomic theory, industrial organization economics, and the history of economic theory. His publications explore the connections between political and economic processes in modern industrial societies as well as the interaction of economic knowledge and professional expertise with those processes as a whole. Along with numerous articles and anthology chapters, Bernstein has published four volumes, including, most recently, A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America (2001).

Lecture Topics

• The Great Depression in American Capitalism
  
• The American Economy Between the World Wars of the Twentieth Century
• Understanding American Economic Decline: From World War II to the Present
• The Legacies of the Cold War and the Contemporary American Economy
• Economists, Economic Thought, and Public Policy in the Modern Age

Stephen Berry
University of Georgia
Stephen Berry is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia, where his teaching and writing focus on the Civil War as a lived experience. He is interested in how men, women, and families reacted to, were shaped by, and endured after the conflict that transformed their lives. A former National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, Berry is author of House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War (2007) and All That Makes a Man: Love and Ambition in the Civil War South (2003).

Lecture Topics

• House of Abraham: Lincoln and the Todds, A Family Divided by War
  
• The Lincoln Marriage
• Lincoln, The Un-Leader
• To Be Great and Good: Lincoln, the Law, and Ethical Leadership
• Using Civil War Images in the Classroom

Troy Bickham
Texas A&M University
Troy Bickham teaches at Texas A&M University and specializes in the history of Britain and its empire, particularly the Atlantic world, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His first book, Savages within the Empire (2005), explores how encounters and relations with American Indians affected British material, political, intellectual, and religious culture in the eighteenth century. His most recent book, Making Headlines: The American Revolution as Seen Through the British Press (2008), explores British reactions to the American Revolution. His current project examines the War of 1812 from an Atlantic perspective. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Lecture Topics

• American Indians in the British Imperial Imagination
  
• The American Revolution in Britain
• The American Revolution from a Global Perspective
• The War of 1812 from an Atlantic Perspective

Martha Biondi
Northwestern University
Martha Biondi is associate professor of African American studies and history at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on African American social movements and antiracist activism. Her book, To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City (2003), rewrites the narrative of the modern civil rights movement and emphasizes the centrality of the urban North. She is currently writing a book on the Black student movement and the origins of African American studies.

Lecture Topics

• The Northern Civil Rights Movement and Its Unfinished Agenda
  
• African Americans and the Struggle for Reparations
• The Origins of Affirmative Action on College Campuses
• From Civil Rights to Black Power: Intergenerational Dialogue in the 1960s
• African American Studies and the Desegregation of the Academy

Allida M. Black
The George Washington University
As project director of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers at The George Washington University, Allida M. Black examines the impact Eleanor Roosevelt had on public policy, party politics, and the modern human rights movement. She is author of a political history of Roosevelt's post-White House career, Casting Her Own Shadow: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism (1995), and editor of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Volume I: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948 (2007) and two volumes of Roosevelt's political writings. She is currently researching Eleanor Roosevelt and the Politics of the Twentieth Century. Black also teaches courses in recent U.S. political history and works closely with the National Council for History Education, the OAH, National History Day, and various Teaching American History programs for secondary school teachers.

Lecture Topics

• The Roosevelts, the Kennedys, and the Battle to Lead the Democratic Party
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Politics and Human Rights from the Great Depression to the Bay of Pigs
• The New Deal
• The United Nations and the Battle to Draft the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights
• First Women: Power, Image, and Politics from Betty Ford to Laura Bush

Richard J. M. Blackett
Vanderbilt University
Richard Blackett holds the Andrew Jackson Chair of History at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the place of African Americans in the Atlantic world, particularly their efforts to end slavery and racial discrimination. His most recent book, Divided Hearts: Britain and the American Civil War, was published in 2000.

Lecture Topics

• Community Resistance to the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
  
• British Popular Reaction to the American Civil War
• African Americans and the Anglo-American Abolitionist Movement
• African Americans, the British Working Class, and the Struggle for Freedom in the United States

William A. Blair
Pennsylvania State University
William Blair is professor of history at the Pennsylvania State University, where he is also director of the Richards Civil War Era Center and editor of Civil War History. He specializes in the social history of the Civil War, with special emphases on the home front and the politics of remembering the conflict. He is author of Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865 (1998), and Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914 (2004). He also has coedited, with William Pencak, The Making and Remaking of Pennsylvania's Civil War (2001). He currently is working on a project that explores the meaning of treason during and after the Civil War.

Lecture Topics

• When Memorial Days Created Friction
  
• Pennsylvania’s Split Personality During the Civil War
• Why Didn't the Rebels Hang?
• The Many Meanings of Civil War Desertion
• Why It Was a Rich Man’s Fight: The Confederacy and Mobilization

Regina Lee Blaszczyk
Independent Historian, Philadelphia, PA
Regina Lee Blaszczyk is an independent scholar affiliated with the department of the history and sociology of science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the history of consumer society, design and fashion, and corporate innovation. She has taught at Boston University, Rutgers University-Camden, and the University of Pennsylvania, and was cultural history curator at the Smithsonian Institution. She is author of the award-winning Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning (2002), Major Problems in American Business History (2006), Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers (2008), and American Consumer Society, 1865-2005: From Hearth to HDTV (2009), among other books. In 2008, she received the Harold F. Williamson Prize for mid-career achievement from the Business History Conference.

Lecture Topics

• American Consumer Society from Hearth to HDTV
  
• Dressing America: How Americans Invented Mass-Market Fashion
• Shop America! Woolworth's to Wal-Mart
• Women in Business: Catherine Beecher to Oprah Winfrey
• Putting Business and the Economy Back into American History
• Madison Avenue Gets Motivated: Ernest Dichter and Postwar Consumer Culture

David W. Blight
Yale University
David Blight is a leading expert on the life and writings of Frederick Douglass and on the Civil War in historical memory. His book Frederick Douglass's Civil War (1989), and his edition of Douglass's Narrative and W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk are widely taught in college courses. Blight has appeared in several PBS films about African American history and works extensively with museums and other public history projects. His most recent work, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, 1863-1915 (2001), won a half-dozen prizes, including four from OAH.

Lecture Topics

• Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War
  
• Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
• Blue, Gray and Black: The Origins of Memorial Day, 1865-1885
• The Study of Historical Memory: Why, and Why Now?

Stuart M. Blumin
Cornell University, Emeritus
Stuart Blumin is professor of history emeritus at Cornell University and former director of the Cornell in Washington program. He works to set the nineteenth-century American experience within larger global transformations, and this, along with a longstanding interest in visual art, has led him to the study of urban representations in painting and graphic art. His recent book on this subject is The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture (2009). He is interested, too, in the way social and cultural life intersects with politics and government, and has coauthored two books on this topic (with Glenn Altschuler), Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century (2000) and The GI Bill: Reassessing America’s Favorite Legislative Act (forthcoming).

Lecture Topics

• The Encompassing City: Streetscapes in Early Modern Art and Culture
  
• The GI Bill and the “Greatest Generation”: Reassessing America’s Favorite Act of Congress

John E. Bodnar
Indiana University
John E. Bodnar is currently Chancellor's Professor of History at Indiana University. His scholarly and teaching interests focus on modern U.S. history with a special interest in the relationship between politics and culture. His publications include The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America (1985); Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century(1992); Blue-Collar Hollywood: Liberalism, Democracy, and Working People in American Film (2003); and "'Saving Private Ryan' and Postwar Memory" (American Historical Review 106, June 2001).

Lecture Topics

• The American Remembrance of World War II
  

Elizabeth Borgwardt
Washington University in St. Louis
Elizabeth Borgwardt specializes in the history of human rights, international law and international institutions, and the international history of modern America. She draws much of her OAH lecture material from her multiple-award-winning book, A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights (2005), as well as from her ongoing projects on the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials; transnational NGOs; and Latin American human rights institutions. Associate professor of history at Washington University in St. Louis, she is the cowinner of the OAH Merle Curti Award for the best book in the history of ideas and the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize for the best first book on the history of U.S. foreign relations, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. She has received multiple teaching awards and was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies during spring 2008. She will give the Bernath Prize Lecture at the OAH annual meeting in Washington, DC, in April 2010.

Lecture Topics

• Historical Perspectives on Human Rights and International Justice
  
• History of International Law and International Relations
• Re-examining the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials
• Human rights ideas and institutions related to corporate accountability; responsibility for propaganda and incitement
• Challenges in Comparative Constitutional Interpretation

Eileen Boris
University of California, Santa Barbara
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of the Department of Feminist Studies and affiliate professor of history, black studies, and law and society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She was copresident of the Coordinating Council for Women in History and president of the board of trustees of The Journal of Women's History; she was also cochair of the program committee for the 2005 Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. She is author of Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris, and the Craftsman Ideal in America (1986) and Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (1994), which won the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History. She is also coeditor of Major Problems in the History of American Workers (2002) and The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Invisible No More: Toward A History of Carework
  
• You Are What You Shop: Women Against the Sweatshop, Past and Present
• Domestic Workers Organize, Past and Present
• The Body as a Category for Historical Analysis
• Citizens on the Job: Gender, Race, and Rights in Modern America
• What is Work? Who is a Worker? Homeworkers, Household Workers, and Poor Single Mothers

Terry Bouton
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Terry Bouton is associate professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His work looks at the connections between economics and politics in the American Revolution. His book, Taming Democracy: "The People," The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution (2007), uncovered the aspirations of small farmers and tried to understand why so many of them were disappointed with how the Revolution ended. Currently, he is working on a book that shows how European creditors demanded and got many key provisions in the U.S. Constitution.

Lecture Topics

• History Written by the Losers: How We Ended Up With a “Whiskey Rebellion”
  
• Small Farmers and the American Revolution
• Tar and Feathers, Hillsborough Paint, and a Road Full of Manure: The Politics of Ordinary People in Revolutionary America
• Foreign Founders: How European Financiers Helped Write the Constitution

Kevin Boyle
The Ohio State University
Kevin Boyle teaches history at The Ohio State University. His work focuses on race, class, and politics in the twentieth-century United States. His most recent book, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age (2004), received the National Book Award for nonfiction. He is also author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995) and coauthor of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons: Images of Working-Class Detroit, 1900-1930 (1997).

Lecture Topics

• Arc of Justice: The Sweet Case and the Course of Civil Rights
  
• There Are No Union Sorrows the Union Can't Heal: Civil Rights and the American Labor Movement

John H. Bracey Jr.
University of Massachusetts Amherst
John H. Bracey Jr. has taught in the W.E. B. Dubois Afro-American Studies Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1972. He is coeditor of Afro-American Women and the Vote 1837-1965 (1997); Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks and Jews in the United States (1999); and African American Mosaic (2004). He also was coeditor of the microfilm edition of the Papers of the NAACP. His current research projects include the NAACP and organized labor, and the politics of the Black Arts Movement. His current teaching efforts consider the intersections and interactions between (traditionally defined) Native Americans and African Americans as well as between Afro-Latinos and African Americans.

Lecture Topics

• Blacks and Jews in U.S. History: Strangers and Neighbors
  
• The NAACP in African American History: Myths and Realities
• My Encounters with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.: An Historian's Perspective
• The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1965: Conflicts and Convergences
• Teaching the Intersections: African Americans, Afro-Latinos, and Native Americans

Barry Bradford
Adlai E. Stevenson High School
A dynamic speaker and respected activist, Barry Bradford has been praised on the floor of Congress, interviewed by every major broadcast network, and recognized with awards from major civil rights organizations for his work to reopen two of the most notorious "cold cases" of the civil rights era: the Mississippi Burning case and the Clyde Kennard case. Winner of OAH's Tachau Teacher of the Year award, he lives in northern Illinois, where he has taught for more than twenty years.

Lecture Topics

• Rewriting History: How one teacher, three high school students, and a dynamic newspaperman brought justice in the Mississippi Burning case, 41 years after the crime
  
• Carrying the Burden: The Legacy of Clyde Kennard (This African American veteran was framed for a crime and sent to prison because he wanted to go to college. Bradford and his students worked to clear Kennard's name almost a half century after his death.)
• Medgar and Myrlie: Is It Ever Too Late to Do the Right Thing? (The story of how Myrlie Evers struggled for 40 years to reopen the murder case of her husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, finally succeeding with the help of a talented newspaperman and a dogged prosecutor.)

Ron Briley
Sandia Preparatory School
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
  

Alan Brinkley
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley is Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University. He has written numerous books, including The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (1992), The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (1995), Liberalism and its Discontents (1998), and American History: A Survey (11th edition, 2002). He is currently writing a biography of Henry R. Luce.

Lecture Topics

• What Happened to Containment?
  
• The Subversive Fifties
• The Great Depression: Then and Now
• Evolution and Intelligent Design: An American Controversy

James F. Brooks
School of American Research
James F. Brooks is President and CEO of the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands (2002) garnered eight distinguished prizes, including the first ever "Triple Crown" of the Bancroft, Parkman, and Turner Prizes. He is also author of Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands
  
• Violence and Identity in the American Southwest
• Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo
• The Indian-Black Experience in North America

Thomas J. Brown
University of South Carolina
Thomas J. Brown is associate professor of history and associate director of the Institute for Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he has taught since 1996. He is author of Dorothea Dix, New England Reformer (1998), coeditor of Hope and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (2001), and editor of The Public Art of Civil War Commemoration (2004) and Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States (2006). His research focuses on the Civil War in American memory.

Lecture Topics

• The Afterlife of Abraham Lincoln
  
• Civic Monuments of the Civil War
• The Civil War in Contemporary America

Leslie Brown
Williams College
An assistant professor of history at Williams College, Leslie Brown has served as a college administrator at Skidmore College and as co-coordinator of Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South, a collaborative research and curriculum project of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South (2008), winner of the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award. She currently is working on a collaborative writing project about the black life in the segregated south, a monograph on African American women and migration, a coedited collection of interviews from the Behind the Veil project, and a compilation of writing and speeches by Shirley Chisholm.

Lecture Topics

• "The Sisters and Mothers are Called to the City": African American Women and an Even Greater Migration
  
• Plenty of Opposition Which is Growing Daily: Beginning the Long Civil Rights Movement
• African American Life in the Jim Crow South
• Making the Capital of the Black Middle Class
• Emancipation and the Meaning of Freedom
• Comparing the First and Second Reconstructions

W. Fitzhugh Brundage
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
After studying lynching and racial violence in the South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage's interests shifted to the study of historical memory and regional identity. In The Southern Past (2005), he traces the contests over memory that divided southerners, both white and black, during the past century and a half. His particular concern is the role of contests over the past as an obstacle to the emergence and recognition of pluralism in the modern South. He currently is at work on two projects: a collection on African Americans and the creation of American mass culture, 1890-1930; and a book on 1919 in the United States.

Lecture Topics

• From Grits to the Allman Brothers: Why American Looks to the South for Authentic Culture
  
• Whose Past? Whose Memory? Contests Over the South’s History
• A Duty Peculiarly Fitting to Women: Southern White Women, Public Space, and Collective Memory, 1880-1920
• Arguing about the Civil War: White and Black Southerners and the Civil War
• The Roar on the Other Side of Silence: White Violence and Black Resistance in the American South

Charles F. Bryan Jr.
Virginia Historical Society
Charles Bryan is president emeritus of the Virginia Historical Society. With Nelson Lankford, he coedited Eye of the Storm, A Civil War Odyssey (2000) and a follow-up volume, Images from the Storm (2001), based on the diary of Union soldier Robert K. Sneden. He is past president of the American Association for State and Local History and serves on the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is a frequent consultant and speaker at museums and historical societies throughout the United States.

Lecture Topics

• Books That Changed the Course of American History
  
• Has America Lost Its National Memory?
• How A Community Lost Its Historic Soul: A Personal Experience
• Separation and Divorce: The Case of West Virginia vs. Virginia
• George Washington, the Model Citizen Soldier
• Lee and Grant

Paul M. Buhle
Brown University, Emeritus
Retired as a lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University, Paul Buhle is a fellow of the Mosse Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author, editor, or coeditor of forty books on popular culture, comic art, film, labor, and radical history. Most recently, he has edited ten volumes of nonfiction comics, including biographies of Emma Goldman, Isadora Duncan, and Che Guevara; histories of the Beat Generation, Students for a Democratic Society, and the Industrial Workers of the World; and Studs Terkel's Working: A Graphic Adaptation (2009). He edited the three-volume set, Jews and American Popular Culture (2006). He also founded and directed the New Left journal, Radical America, and the Oral History of the American Left
project at New York University.

Lecture Topics

• Comic Art Comes of Age in the Twenty-First Century
  
• The Hollywood Blacklist and the Films and Television Work of the Hollywood Left, 1930-1980
• Legacies and Reinterpretations of the 1960s' Social Movements
• Yiddish Heritage and the Jewish Role in American Popular Culture
• American Labor's Rise, Fall, and Troubled Present

Lonnie G. Bunch III
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Lonnie Bunch is founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Previously he served as president of the Chicago Historical Society, associate director for curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, education specialist with the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, and curator of history for the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. He has written several books, including Black Angelenos: The African American in Los Angeles, 1850-1950 and the exhibition catalog, The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden (2000).

Lecture Topics

• Interpreting African American History in American Museums
  
• Race, Aviation, and Social Change: The African American in Early Aviation
• Black America and the California Dream

Edwin G. Burrows
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Edwin G. Burrows, Broeklundian Professor of History at Brooklyn College, CUNY, and Fellow of the Society of American Historians, is an authority on the history of New York City and the coauthor of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1999), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Dyckman House Museum in Manhattan, he has served as a consultant for a variety of public and private organizations and has been an on-camera commentator for documentaries aired by the BBC and the History Channel. His latest book is Forgotten Patriots: American Prisoners in the Revolutionary War (forthcoming, 2008).

Lecture Topics

• The History of New York City to 1898
  
• Revolutionary War

Orville Vernon Burton
Coastal Carolina University
Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, Vernon Burton is author or editor of eight books, including In My Father's House Are Many Mansions: Family and Community in Edgefield, South Carolina (1985). His research and teaching interests include the American South, especially race relations, family, community, politics, religion, and the intersection of humanities and social sciences, especially humanities computing.

Lecture Topics

• Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction: An Interpretation
  
• Where and How Brown v. Board Began: Two Reconstructions and Historical Memory
• The Voting Rights Act: It Must Not Have Been Humid Enough in the North
• Keeping Up with the e-Joneses: History and Information Technology, Two Worlds in Need of Each Other?
• RiverWeb (a historical, web-based, multimedia education project about the Mississippi River) at http://www.riverweb.uiuc.edu
• The Age of Lincoln

Jon Butler
Yale University
Jon Butler is Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies and dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. His award-winning books include The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (1983); Awash in A Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (1990); and Becoming America: The Revolution Before 1776 (2000). His newest project is a history of religion in New York City between 1870 and 1970.

Lecture Topics

• The Anomaly of Religion in Modern America
  
• God in Gotham: How Religion Prospered in Modern Manhattan
• Religion and Politics in the American Experience

Lendol Calder
Augustana College
Lendol Calder is associate professor of history at Augustana College. Since 1999, he has been working with others to invent and share new models for history teaching at the postsecondary level. A popular presenter and workshop leader, he has consulted for national initiatives such as the Teaching American History Grant Program, the Quality in Undergraduate Education Project, and the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; he currently represents the OAH on the board of the National Council on History Education. His Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit (1999) was hailed by the Wall Street Journal as "deliciously seditious" for the ways it inverted common assumptions about the meaning of credit in American life.

Lecture Topics

• The Problem with Coverage: Why History Teachers Need a Signature Pedagogy
  
• "For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die": Lessons from Mt. Hood on What Makes a Good History Teacher
  
• The Usurer's Grip: Myths and Stories to Make Sense of Consumer Credit

Colin G. Calloway
Dartmouth College
Colin G. Calloway is professor of history and Samson Occom Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College; he also is serving his fourth consecutive term as chair of the Native American studies program there, after having served as editor and assistant director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library. His books include, most recently, White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America (2008); The Shawnees and the War for America (2007); The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America (2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003), which won six "best book" awards; and First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History (1999). He has also edited several collections of essays and documents, including Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience (2004). He is currently writing a book on Native Americans and Dartmouth College.

Lecture Topics

• Highland Scots and American Indians
  
• Indian Country and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Indians and the French and Indian War
• American Indians and the American Revolution
• Indians and American History
• New England Indians and New England's History

Albert Camarillo
Stanford University
Albert Camarillo is professor of history and the Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service at Stanford University. He is author of several books, including Chicanos in California: A History of Mexican Americans (1984) and Not White, Not Black: Mexicans and Racial/Ethnic Borderlands in American Cities (forthcoming).

Lecture Topics

• The New Racial Frontier: Minority-Majority Cities in Contemporary America
  
• Comparative Urban Histories of European Immigrants, Mexican Americans, and African Americans, 1900-1980
• Race and Ethnicity in Modern America
• Mexican American Life and Culture

Ballard Campbell
Northeastern University
Ballard Campbell is professor of history at Northeastern University. He is past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, and author of Representative Democracy (1980) and The Growth of American Government (1995). He is completing a work on disasters, accidents, and crises in American history; writing Building the American State: The Long Nineteenth Century in Comparative Perspective; and researching the impact of depressions on society.

Lecture Topics

• Disaster! Catastrophe and Crisis in American History
  
• Depressions and American Elections
• Popular versus Professional History (Authors v. Academics)

Peter S. Carmichael
West Virginia University
Peter S. Carmichael is Eberly Professor of Civil War Studies at West Virginia University and has published a number of books, most recently a study of Southern college students during the Civil War era entitled The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion (2005). He is currently researching the experience and wartime representation of Confederate slaves, and how the popular idea of loyal African American defending the South animates current cultural wars over "Southern heritage."

Lecture Topics

• Intellectual Life of the Old South
  
• The Coming of the Civil War
• Common Civil War Soldiers
• Slavery in the Confederacy
• Civil War Generalship
• Public History

Clayborne Carson
Stanford University and Morehouse College
In 1985 Clayborne Carson accepted the invitation of Coretta Scott King to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The founding director of Stanford’s King Research and Education Institute and executive director of Morehouse’s King Collection, he is coauthor of The Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans (2007) and has written or edited numerous works based on the papers, including The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) and the docudrama "Passages of Martin Luther King." He was also senior adviser for the award-winning public television series, "Eyes on the Prize."

Lecture Topics

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Global Liberation
  
• King and Malcolm X
• King and Gandhi
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Richard Carwardine
St. Catherine's College, Oxford University
Richard Carwardine is Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University and a fellow of St. Catherine’s College. Elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2006, he is author of Transatlantic Revivalism: Popular Evangelicalism in Britain and America 1790-1865 (1978) and Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America (1993). His analytical political biography of Abraham Lincoln won the Lincoln Prize in 2004; the American edition was subsequently published as Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power (2006). He is currently working on a study of religion in American national construction between the Revolution and the Civil War.

Lecture Topics

• Abraham Lincoln, God, and the American Civil War
  
• Abraham Lincoln and the Fourth Estate: The White House and the Press during the American Civil War
• Battling for Souls: Interdenominational Warfare in the Early American Republic
• "Wonderful Self-Reliance": Abraham Lincoln's Leadership
• Abraham Lincoln, Citizen of the World

Scott E. Casper
University of Nevada, Reno
Scott E. Casper is professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, and teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history, the history of the book, and American cultural history. In Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine (2008), he retells the origins of American historic preservation through the story of the African American community that lived and worked at George Washington's home in the century after his death. Casper's first book, Constructing American Lives (1999), explores the relationships between biography and culture in nineteenth-century America from the perspectives of authors, publishers, and readers. He has received several teaching awards, including the CASE/Carnegie Foundation Nevada Professor of the Year (2008), and has worked extensively with K-12 teachers across the United States.

Lecture Topics

• Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: Reconstructing the Forgotten Nineteenth-Century History of an Eighteenth-Century Place
  
• The Selling of the President, Nineteenth-Century Style
• Books, Publishing, and Reading in Nineteenth-Century America

Andrew Cayton
Miami University
Andrew Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University, teaches courses in the history of North America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He has written extensively about the struggle for control of the region west of the Appalachian Mountains and the emergence of political and cultural borders within the United States. His interest in empires and borderlands as well as questions of power and consent led to his collaboration with Fred Anderson in The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000 (2005) and to his current work, also with Fred Anderson, Imperial America, 1672-1764.

Lecture Topics

• Local History as World History: The Origins of the American Midwest
  
• The Significance of North America in the Early American Republic
• Global Tourism, State Power, and the Significance of the American Civil War
• War and Empire in Trans-Appalachian North America, 1754-1815
• Acts of Imagination: Literature and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Bruce Chadwick
New Jersey City University
Few lecturers have as varied a background as historian Bruce Chadwick. After a long and distinguished career as a newspaper reporter, he is professor of journalism at New Jersey City University and author of twenty-seven books, most recently focusing on Revolutionary War and Civil War history as well as on forensics. He has appeared often on the History Channel and has lectured extensively across the United States and abroad.

Lecture Topics

• Let George Do It: George Washington as Leader of the Continental Army and the First President
  
• George and Martha: America’s First First Couple and How They Made America
  
• The First American Army: The Story Behind the Men Who Fought the American Revolution
• The Rise of Abraham Lincoln: The Growth of a Politician from 1832 to 1860
• Forensics for Everyone: A Colorful Look at the History of Forensics

William H. Chafe
Duke University
Much of Bill Chafe's professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issues of race and gender equality. Former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Duke University, he is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and cofounder of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women, the Duke Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations, and the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. A past president of OAH, he is author of several books, including Civilities and Civil Rights (1979), which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993) which won the Sidney Hillman Book Award. He is also coeditor of Remembering Jim Crow (2001) which won the Lillian Smith Book Award.

Lecture Topics

• Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights
  
• Changing Gender Roles from 1920 to the Present
• From Roosevelt to Bush: American Politics in the Past Fifty Years
• From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Laying a Foundation for Change
• The Challenges Facing Barack Obama: An Historical Perspective

Robert W. Cherny
San Francisco State University
Robert W. Cherny is professor of history at San Francisco State University. His research and teaching interests are in U.S. history 1865-1940, politics, labor, and the West, especially California and San Francisco. His published work includes American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 (1997); San Francisco, 1865-1932 (1981), with William Issel; A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (1985); and coauthored textbooks on U.S. and California history. He has been an NEH Fellow, Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Moscow State University, and Senior Fulbright Lecturer at Heidelberg University, and has lectured for Teaching American History programs around the country.

Lecture Topics

• The Evolution of the Presidency, from the Gilded Age through World War II
  
• The Transformation of American Politics, 1890-1917
• A New Majority? Stability and Change in American Political History and the Prospects for Realignment Today
• The Dysfunctional State of California Government
• History of San Francisco (various topics)

Mary Marshall Clark
Columbia University
Mary Marshall Clark is director of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, the first university-based oral history program and archive in the world, founded in 1948. She is past president of the United States Oral History Association and has served on the executive council of the International Oral History Association. Currently, she directs one of the largest oral history projects documenting the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001. She has also conducted a wide range of biographical interviews for Columbia University on a wide variety of subjects--including women’s history, media and journalism history, political history, philanthropy, and the history of psychoanalysis--speaking with U.S. congresswoman Bella Abzug and Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, among others.

Lecture Topics

• September 11, 2001 in Time, History, and the Imagination: An Oral History
  
• Twice Betrayed: The Aftermath of September 11 in Immigrant and Refugee Communities
• Documenting Catastrophe through Oral History: Preserving Histories of Trauma
• The Art and Praxis of Oral History: A Method and a Discipline
• Creating Community Oral History Projects in Communities and Across Cultures

James C. Cobb
University of Georgia
James Cobb is B. Phinizy Spaulding Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He has written and lectured widely on the interaction of economy, society, and culture in the American South. His books include The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-1990 (1993); The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992); and Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005).

Lecture Topics

• Southern Identity in Contemporary and Comparative Perspective
  
• Southern Economic Development Since the Civil War
• Country Music and Southern White Culture
• The Southern Roots of Rock 'n' Roll

Peter A. Coclanis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter A. Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and Associate Provost for International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of numerous works in U.S. and international economic history, including The Shadow of a Dream: Economic Life and Death in the South Carolina Low Country, 1670-1920 (1989); with David L. Carlton, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003); and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Globalization in Southeast Asia over la Longue Durée (2006).

Lecture Topics

• Slavery and the Southern Economy: Myths and Realities
  
• Agriculture and American Economic Development
• How the Economies of the North and South Came to Differ
• The Globalization of Agriculture: A Cautionary Note from the Rice Trade
• Globalization in Historical Perspective

Charles L. Cohen
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Charles L. Cohen is professor of history and religious studies, and director of the Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Winner of several distinguished teaching awards and recognized in Who's Who in American Teachers, he works on early American history and American religious history. He is coeditor, with Paul S. Boyer, of Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America (2008).

Lecture Topics

• A Cultural History of America's Thanksgiving
  
• The Limits of Missions in the Early Modern World
• Jews and Muslims in Christian America

David R. Colburn
University of Florida
David R. Colburn is professor of history and provost emeritus at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1972. His teaching and research have focused on politics, race, and ethnicity in twentieth-century America. His most recent books include Florida's Megatrends (2002) with Lance deHaven Smith and African-American Mayors: Race, Politics, and the American City (2001). He has been a regular contributor to the Orlando Sentinel as well as president of the Florida Historical Society. He also served as one of the authors of the "Rosewood Report" (1993)--part of Florida's inquiry into the destruction of that town in 1923--principal reviewer and consultant for "Rosewood Reborn," which won a McArthur Prize for best radio documentary; and principal consultant for the television documentary "Redemption: The Legacy of Rosewood," which was one of five finalists for an Emmy in 1996.

Lecture Topics

• Rosewood and its Place in the Modern South
  
• Florida, the Nation, and the Rise of the Republican Party
• Race and Ethnicity in Modern America
• African American Mayors, 1968 to the Present
• Race, Religion, Migration, and Immigration in the Sunbelt

Annie Gilbert Coleman
Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Annie Gilbert Coleman is associate professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. Her book, Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies (2004), examines the rise of the Rocky Mountain ski industry from the perspectives of cultural and social history as well as environmental history and landscape studies. She continues to pursue her interest in the consumption of western landscapes with her current research on professional outdoor guides.

Lecture Topics

• Call of the Mild: The Nature, Leisure, and Construction of Skiing Landscapes
  
• The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing (or other riffs on the history of the ski industry)
• Professional Guides: "Fine Athletic Figures" and Environmental Brokers
  

Bettye Collier-Thomas
Temple University
Bettye Collier-Thomas is professor of history at Temple University. Her publications include Daughters of Thunder: Black Women Preachers and Their Sermons, 1850-1979 (1998), the award-winning Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement (2001), and the forthcoming "Jesus, Jobs, and Justice": A History of African American Women and Religion. She founded and served as first executive director of the Bethune Museum and Archives National Historic Site, in Washington, D.C., for which she received a Conservation Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. She is also recipient of a 2008-2009 Resident Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

Lecture Topics

• Women, Religion, Race, and Civil Rights
  
• Across the Divide: Women and the Twentieth-Century Interracial Movement
• Nappy and Unhappy?: The Politics and Economics of Black Beauty Culture
• Ambivalent Personas: Stage Women and the Image of Black Womanhood
• “God Mammies”: African American Women Missionaries in Liberia

Blanche Wiesen Cook
John Jay College, City University of New York
Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Blanche Wiesen Cook is author of the award-winning Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I, 1884-1933 (1992) and Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 (1999). She is now working on the third and final volume. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Pacifica Radio and has appeared frequently as a television news commentator. She also was cofounder and cochair of the OAH's Committee on Research and Access to Historical Documentation.

Lecture Topics

• Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quest for Peace and Human Rights
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt, Women, and Power
• The Assault Against Freedom of Information and Access to Presidential Papers

Saul Cornell
The Ohio State University
Saul Cornell specializes in early American history and legal/Constitutional history. He is author of The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (1999) and, most recently, A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America (2006). Cornell also has a strong interest in teaching with technology and is writing a section of a new textbook, American Visions: A History of the American Nation.

Lecture Topics

• The Second Amendment Goes to Court: District of Columbia v. Heller and the Future of Gun Control
  
• Popular Constitutionalism and the Origins of American Law: The Original Understanding of Originalism
• Re-envisioning Early American History: Rethinking the American History Survey

Nancy F. Cott
Harvard University
Nancy Cott was the first person to teach a course on U.S. women's history at Wheaton College, Clark University, and Wellesley College, in the early 1970s. She then taught for twenty-five years at Yale University, before moving to the history department at Harvard University, where she is also the faculty director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Cott has published many books and articles and has lectured widely on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Lecture Topics

• Marriage and Citizenship
  
• What is Gender History?
• The American History of Marriage
• Revisiting the 1920s Generation

Edward Countryman
Southern Methodist University
Edward Countryman won the Bancroft Prize for A People in Revolution: The American Revolution and Political Society in New York, 1760-1790 (1981). He also has written The American Revolution (1985, revised edition in progress) and Americans: A Collision of Histories (1996). His teaching interest in film studies led to Shane (1999), with Evonne Von Heussen Countryman. He has taught in New Zealand and Britain and is now University Distinguished Professor in the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University.

Lecture Topics

• Getting to Know George Washington
  
• Paying the Price for America's Rising Glory
• The Price of Cotton: Mississippi in 1850
• Booting Up The Empire State: New York, 1776-1825
• The Continental Turn and the Origins of the American Revolution
  
• Black Americans and the Era of Independence

Hamilton Cravens
Iowa State University
Hamilton Cravens is professor of history at Iowa State University. His teaching, research, and writing revolve around the history of American culture, set within the broad framework of European and American civilization, with particular focus on the role of science and of social thought. He has written much about the influence of the evolutionary natural and social sciences in America, and is author of the forthcoming Imagining the Good Society: The Social Sciences in the American Past and Present (2010), editor of Great Depression: Peoples and Perspectives (2009), and coeditor of Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America (2009).

Lecture Topics

• Cold War Social Science: Threat to Democracy?
  
• Science and Race in Modern America
• American Democracy and Social Science Before 1870
• Creationism and Science in American History: Three Episodes
• The End of Expertise since the 1950s

Charles T. Cullen
Newberry Library, Emeritus
Charles T. Cullen is president and librarian emeritus of the Newberry Library. Prior to assuming duties there in 1986, he taught at Averett College, the College of William and Mary, and Princeton University, and worked as an editor on the Papers of John Marshall and the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. He has written or contributed to more than thirty books and articles, and has lectured widely on subjects relating to the age of Jefferson, the scholarly use of computers, and the role of humanities research libraries. An early advocate for the use of computers in scholarly editing, he received the Association for Documentary Editing's Distinguished Service Award in 1987.

Lecture Topics

• Jefferson's White House Dinner Lists
  

Daniel Czitrom
Mount Holyoke College
Daniel Czitrom has been teaching American cultural and political history at Mount Holyoke College since 1981. He is coauthor, with Bonnie Yochelson, of Rediscovering Jacob Riis: Exposure Journalism and Photography in Turn of the Century New York (2008). His Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan (1982) received the American Historical Association’s First Book Award and has been translated into Chinese and Spanish. He is also coauthor of Out of Many: A History of the American People (6th ed. 2008), which was banned from Texas high schools in 2003. His current book project, entitled Mysteries of the City, focuses on New York City's underside in the 1890s, and its political and cultural importance for the larger nation.

Lecture Topics

• Mysteries of the City: Politics, Culture, and New York’s Underworld in Turn-of-the-Century America
  
• Jacob Riis's New York
• Banned in Texas: An Historian’s Adventure in the Culture Wars
• Media and the American Mind

Kathleen Dalton
Phillips Academy Andover
Kathleen Dalton is Cecil F.P. Bancroft Instructor of History at Phillips Academy Andover as well as an external fellow of Boston University's International History Institute. Author of Theodore Roosevelt: A Strenuous Life (2002) and A Portrait of a School: Coeducation at Andover (1986), she has spoken widely about Theodore Roosevelt, including appearances on C-SPAN's Book TV, the History Channel, the Arts and Entertainment Channel, and public television; her writing has appeared in numerous newspapers. She is currently working on her next book, The White Lilies and the Iron Boot, a story of four friends (including Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt) and their attempts to shape U.S. foreign relations during a dangerous time.

Lecture Topics

• How Radical Was He? The Contradictory Politics of Theodore Roosevelt
  
• Presidential Bonds: What Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt Had in Common, Besides Loving Eleanor
• Environmental History Giants: John Muir Meets Theodore Roosevelt
• Life Lessons from the Great Depression: How We Held Our Heads High the Last Time the Bottom Fell Out
• Eleanor's Other Friend: The First Lady as Seen Through the Diaries of Caroline Drayton Phillips
• Internationalizing Progressivism

Pete Daniel
National Museum of American History
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

Roger Daniels
University of Cincinnati, Emeritus
A past president of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era as well as the Immigration History Society, Roger Daniels is the Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Cincinnati. He served as consultant to the Presidential Commission on the Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians and is a planning committee member for the immigration museum on Ellis Island. His recent works include Not Like Us: Immigration and Minorities in America, 1890-1924 (1997); an expanded edition of Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life (2002); Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants (2004); and an expanded edition of Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II (2004).

Lecture Topics

• Incarceration of the Japanese Americans, 1942-2006
  
• The Asian American Experience
• American Immigration
• American Immigration Policy

Adrienne D. Davis
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Adrienne Davis is the Reef C. Ivey II Research Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law where she teaches property, contracts, trusts and estates, and a variety of upper-level legal theory courses, including sex equality, law and literature, and slavery. Her scholarship emphasizes the gendered and private law dimensions of American slavery. She also does work on conceptions of justice and reparations and work/family conflict. She is recipient of two grants from the Ford Foundation, the most recent administered through Brandeis University's Feminist Sexual Ethics Project to research women, slavery, sexuality, and religion; she was also a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Study and Conference Center. She is a member of the boards of the Center of the Study for the American South and the cultural studies program at the University of North Carolina, former editor of the Journal of Legal Education and Law and History Review, and past chair of the law and humanities section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Lecture Topics

• U.S. Slavery (particularly gender and slavery)
  
• Women's Legal History
• Property
• African American Legal History
• Reparations
• Intersections of History and Critical Theory

Brian DeLay
University of California, Berkeley
Brian DeLay teaches U.S. and the world, and borderlands history at the University of California, Berkeley. His research concentrates on connections between independent native peoples and the interlocked histories of American nation states. He is coauthor of the textbook Nation of Nations (2007), and author of The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (2008). He is currently at work on a book about the international arms trade and the reconfiguration of frontiers and borderlands in the Americas from the Seven Years' War to World War I.

Lecture Topics

• Independent Indians and the U.S.-Mexican War
  
• War and Peace on the Southern Plains, 1820-1850
• John Singleton Copley's "Watson and the Shark": Re-Reading an American Masterpiece

Philip J. Deloria
University of Michigan
Philip Deloria is professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan; president of the American Studies Association; author of Indians in Unexpected Places (2004) and Playing Indian (1998); and coeditor, with Neal Salisbury, of The Blackwell Companion to American Indian History (2001). His research and teaching focus on the cultural and ideological intersections of Indian and non-Indian worlds.

Lecture Topics

• Reading Mount Rushmore: Landscape, Experience, and History
  
• The Secret History of American Indian Modernity
• Three Tales of Crossed Culture: A Family History
• From Nation to Neighborhood: The Cultural Geography of U.S. Colonialism

Sarah Deutsch
Duke University
Sarah Deutsch is dean of social sciences at Duke University. Her research focuses on gender, racial, and spatial formations from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. She has published extensively on gender and race relations in the U.S. West, particularly the Southwest, and on the urban northeast. Her most recent book is Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (2000), and her most recent article is “Being American in Boley, Oklahoma,” in Beyond Black and White (2004). She is currently at work on a history of the U.S. West from 1898-1942.

Lecture Topics

• Dreams of Inclusion--Re-narrating Race and Gender in the History of the U.S. West
  
• Power, Place and Identity: Women in Public, 1890-1930
• Shifting Paradigms and Racing Mexicans in the Age of U.S. Imperialism

William Deverell
University of Southern California
William Deverell is director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West and professor of history at the University of Southern California. He has written widely on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century history of California and the far West. His recent publications include Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past (2004) and the coedited volume, Land of Sunshine: An Environmental History of Metropolitan Los Angeles (2004). Deverell is editor of the Blackwell Companion to the American West (2004) and coeditor of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the History of California and the Blackwell Companion to the History of Los Angeles.

Lecture Topics

• California History
  
• Western History
• History of Los Angeles
• The West and the Civil War
• Western Environmental History

Bruce Dierenfield
Canisius College
Bruce Dierenfield is Peter Canisius Distinguished Teaching Professor of American History, director of the All-College Honors Program, and director of the African American Experience at Canisius College. He is author, most recently, of The Civil Rights Movement (rev. ed., 2008) and the prizewinning The Battle over School Prayer: How Engel v. Vitale Changed America (2007).

Lecture Topics

• The Epic School Prayer Case of Engel v. Vitale (1962)
  
• “The Most Hated Woman in America”: Madalyn Murray O’Hair’s Atheist Crusade Against Religion
• Heroes and Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement
• Ten Myths of the Civil Rights Movement
• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Hasia Diner
New York University
Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, with joint appointment in the department of history and the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies. She is also director of the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. She has built her scholarly career around the study of American Jewish history, American immigration and ethnic history, and the history of American women. She has written about the ways in which American Jews in the early twentieth century reacted to the issue of race and the suffering of African Americans, and the process by which American Jews came to invest deep meaning in New York’s Lower East Side. Her most recent book addresses post-World War II American Jews, in the period up to 1962, and their intense engagement with the Holocaust. She has also written about other immigrant groups and the contours of their migration and settlement, including a study of Irish immigrant women and of Irish, Italian, and east European Jewish foodways.

Lecture Topics

• Fitting Memorials: American Jews Confront the Holocaust, 1945-1962
  
• A History of, and on, Their Own: Jewish Women in America
• The Lower East Side and American Jewry: Bridging History and Memory
• Food and the Making of American Ethnicity
• Wandering Jews: Peddlers and the Discovery of New Worlds

John Dittmer
DePauw University
John Dittmer is professor emeritus of history at DePauw University. He is author of Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994), which won a Bancroft Prize, and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights, Race, and the Politics of Health Care in America (2009), about a group of health care professionals active not only in the Deep South at the height of the civil rights movement but also as part of the New Left during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Lecture Topics

• The Good Doctors: Race and Health Care During the Civil Rights Era
  
• The Civil Rights Movement and the Possibilities of Democracy

Thomas Dublin
Binghamton University, State University of New York
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
  

Mary L. Dudziak
University of Southern California
Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science at the University of Southern California, Mary L. Dudziak is interested in the impact of international affairs on U.S. civil rights, international approaches to American legal history, twentieth-century constitutional history, and contemporary constitutional law. Her publications include Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey (2008); Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (2000) and an edited collection, September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? (2003). She is also coeditor of Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders (2006). Her new book project is a revisionist account of law and war in the twentieth century.

Lecture Topics

• Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall's African Journey
  
• Civil Rights and the Cold War
• Law and War in the Twentieth Century
• Law, War, and the History of Time

Lynn Dumenil
Occidental College
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

Thomas R. Dunlap
Texas A & M University
Thomas R. Dunlap is professor at Texas A&M University and studies primarily the impact of science on American views of nature. He is author of DDT (1981), Saving America’s Wildlife (1988), and Nature and the English Diaspora (1998). His most recent book, Faith in Nature (2004), considers environmental commitment as a secular answer to ultimate questions of human life and purpose. His current research looks at informal nature education over the last century through field guides to birds.

Lecture Topics

• Natural History, Ecology, and American Nature
  
• Inventing the Field Guide to the Birds, 1889-1933
• Environmentalism as a Secular Religion
• Evangelicals and Environmentalists
• The Future of Environmentalism

Jonathan Earle
University of Kansas
Jonathan Earle is associate professor of American history at the University of Kansas, where he also directs programming at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. He is author of the Routledge Atlas of African American History (2000; Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil (2004), which won the Byron Caldwell Smith Award and the Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; and John Brown's Raid: A Brief History with Documents (2008). He is also coeditor, with Sean Wilentz, of Major Problems in the Early Republic (2007). His research interests focus on the antislavery movement and the political events leading up to the Civil War.

Lecture Topics

• Free Soil and the Rise of Political Antislavery in the United States
  
• John Brown, Bleeding Kansas, and the Making of an Irrepressible Conflict

Michael H. Ebner
Lake Forest College, Emeritus
Michael H. Ebner is James D. Vail III Professor of History Emeritus at Lake Forest College, where he taught from 1974 to 2007. He is best known as author of the prizewinning Creating Chicago's North Shore: A Suburban History (1988). He also has served as academic director of A Model Curriculum: Rethinking American History, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History initiative and Creating a Geographically Extended Class, underwritten by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Ebner is the recipient of awards--as a mentor, as a teacher, and for public service--from the American Historical Association, the Chicago Tribune, The City College of New York, and Lake Forest College, and is a life trustee at the Chicago History Museum.

Lecture Topics

• Teaching American History: What Happens When Professors and Secondary School Educators Converge?
  
• The Globalization of American Urban History
• How the Automobile Revolutionized the American Metropolis
• Extremely Suburban America: Narratives from the Twentieth Century
• Baseball as History/History as Baseball
• Chicago's Iconic Jane Addams: Feminist, Urbanist, and Pacifist

R. David Edmunds
University of Texas at Dallas
Watson Professor of American History at the University of Texas at Dallas, R. David Edmunds has written or edited ten books, including The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (1978) which won the Francis Parkman Prize. He has held Ford Foundation, Newberry, and Guggenheim fellowships; has advised documentary filmmakers, tribal governments, foundations, and museums; and is past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and the Western History Association.

Lecture Topics

• "Something Useful for a Change": Academics and Indian Communities in the Twenty-First Century
  
• Moving With the Seasons, Not Fixed in Stone: The Evolution of Native American Identity
• Blazing New Trails or Burning Bridges? Native American History Comes of Age
• Crooked Legs Walk No More: The Impact of Horses Upon Tribal People on the Plains

Laura F. Edwards
Duke University
Laura Edwards is professor of history at Duke University, where she teaches courses on women, gender, and law. Her research focuses on the same issues, with a particular emphasis on the nineteenth-century U.S. South. She is author of Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997), Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000), and The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary U.S. South (2009).

Lecture Topics

• Slaves and Law in the Antebellum South
  
• Women in the Civil War South
• Women, Rights, and Citizenship

Clyde Ellis
Elon University
Clyde Ellis is professor of history and University Distinguished Scholar at Elon University. He has written widely on American Indian history and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the Southern Plains and the maintenance of Indian identity. His publications include To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 (1996); The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns (2002), with Luke Eric Lassiter and Ralph Kotay; A Dancing People: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains (2003); and an edited anthology, Powwow (2006). He is currently writing a history of the Indian hobbyist movement in the United States.

Lecture Topics

• More than Singing and Dancing: Contemporary Powwow Culture
  
• "We Had a Lot of Fun, But That Wasn’t the School Part": Indian Boarding Schools and Cultural Persistence
  
• The Jesus Road In Indian Country
• "Tipis, Council Fires, and Indians Galore": Indian Hobbyists in the United States
  

Ted Engelmann
Denver, CO, and Ha Noi, Viet Nam
A veteran of the American War in Viet Nam, Ted Engelmann has traveled extensively to photograph the effects of the war throughout Viet Nam, the United States, South Korea, and Australia. In November 2008 he embedded with U.S. troops in Baghdad to make comparative photographs between the life of soldiers today and his experience in Viet Nam 40 years ago. A former middle and high school social studies teacher, he speaks and facilitates educational workshops on the methods and materials for teaching about the war. His work has been published in the Journal of American History, Occupational Therapy and Psychosocial Dysfunction, SocialEducation, and War, Literature & the Arts.

Lecture Topics

• A Soldier's Heart: From Viet Nam to Iraq
  
• Finding Thuy: Returning the Diaries of Dang Thuy Tram
• The American War in Viet Nam: A Veteran's Perspective
• Wounds that Bind: Four Countries after the American War in Viet Nam

Stephen D. Engle
Florida Atlantic University
Steve Engle is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. His teaching and research interests focus on the American Civil War, in particular the ethnic, military, and, most recently, political considerations of the conflict. Author of several books and articles, and a former Fulbright Scholar to Germany, he is most recently known for Struggle for the Heartland (2001). He is currently engaged in research for a book entitled All the President’s Statesmen: Abraham Lincoln, Union Governors, and the Negotiation of Power in the Civil War, which explores the relationship between Lincoln and the northern war governors during the Civil War.

Lecture Topics

• German Ethnic Identity in the American Civil War
  
• Struggle for the Heartland: The Civil War in the West Revisited
• All the President’s Statesmen: Abraham Lincoln, Union Governors, and the Negotiation of Power in the Civil War
• Three Kinds of History: Teaching An Unpredictable Past

Glenn T. Eskew
Georgia State University
Glenn T. Eskew has an abiding interest in southern history having taught the subject at Georgia State University since 1993. He has published a variety of essays and books focusing on race relations since the Civil War. His But For Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (1997) received the Francis Butler Simkins Prize of the Southern Historical Association and Longwood College for the best book in southern history by a new author. He is currently editing Savannah lyricist Johnny Mercer's unpublished autobiography and studying civil rights monuments and institutions in the Deep South. Eskew serves on a number of national, regional, state, and local boards, and promotes historic preservation by working to restore nineteenth-century structures and landscapes in the state.

Lecture Topics

• Civil Rights Memorials
  
• The Life and Career of Johnny Mercer

Todd Estes
Oakland University
Todd Estes is associate professor of history at Oakland University. His research concentrates on early U.S. political history and political culture. Estes is author of The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture (2006). He is currently researching a book on the ratification debate, tentatively entitled The Campaign for the Constitution: Political Culture and the Ratification Contest. He has won a couple teaching prizes, including the Oakland University Teaching Excellence Award (2001).

Lecture Topics

• "Huggermuggered and Suppressed": Hardball Politics and the Ratification of the Constitution
  
• The Jay Treaty Debate and the Evolving Culture of Politics in the Early Republic
• James Madison's Reluctant Paternity of the Constitution

C. Wyatt Evans
Drew University
C. Wyatt Evans teaches history and American studies at Drew University. His research interests are varied and include the memory of the Civil War in contemporary America, domestic security in the Civil War North, and how Americans have viewed leadership since the nineteenth century. He is author of The Legend of John Wilkes Booth: Myth, Memory, and a Mummy (2004) and is currently at work on a history of Civil War domestic security chief Lafayette Baker.

Lecture Topics

• Obama, Lincoln, and 2008: The Mobilization of Memory in Contemporary American Politics
  
• Are We Obsessing on Lincoln Too Much?
• Refugees, Counterfeits, Sabotage, and Mailmen: Domestic Security Challenges during the American Civil War
• How Modern Americans Think About Leadership

Alice Fahs
University of California, Irvine
Alice Fahs is associate professor of history at the University of California, Irvine. Author of The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and the South, 1861-1865 (2000), she is interested in a broad view of American cultural history, including popular culture, print culture, and the market as well as more traditional subjects of intellectual inquiry. Most recently, she published an edition of Hospital Sketches (2003), Louisa May Alcott's classic account of her nursing experiences during the Civil War, and her study of late-nineteenth century American society and culture entitled Newspaper Women and the Making of the Modern, 1885-1910 is forthcoming.

Lecture Topics

• The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature and the Meanings of the Nation, 1861-1865
  
• Women and the Civil War
• Newspaper Women and the Making of the Modern, 1885-1910

Candace Falk
Emma Goldman Papers, University of California, Berkeley
Candace Falk is a Guggenheim Fellow and the founding director of the Emma Goldman Papers research project as the University of California, Berkeley. Her interest in feminism and antiwar activities led to her research on Goldman. She is author of Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman (1984) and is currently editing a four-volume collection of Goldman's papers, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, the second volume of which, Making Speech Free (1902-1909), was published in 2005.

Lecture Topics

• Deported But Not Defeated: Emma Goldman During World War I
  
• Passion, Politics, and Free Expression: The Legacy of Emma Goldman
• Undocumented Workers: Hidden Histories of Labor Radicalism from America's Turbulent Past
• Redefining Patriotism: Immigrant Radicalism (1890-1919)
• To Dream of Becoming a Judith: The Jewish Roots of Emma Goldman's Anarchism
• Nearer My Subject to Thee: Reflections of a Biographer, Historian, and Documentary Editor

James J. Farrell
St. Olaf College
Jim Farrell is professor of history, American studies, environmental studies and American conversations at St. Olaf College. As an interdisciplinary scholar and teacher, his teaching has focused on the moral ecology of everyday life. As "John Cummins," he performs a one-man Chautauqua show based on the life of a nineteenth-century Minnesota pioneer. As "Dr. America," on public radio station WCAL, he was curator of the magnificent (but wholly imaginary) American Studies Museum. And recently, as a member of the St. Olaf's Sustainability Task Force, he’s had a hand in the college's greening. His books include, most recently, One Nation Under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping (2003). Currently, he is working on a book entitled The Nature of College: Environmental Perspectives
on College Culture.

Lecture Topics

• One Nation under Goods: Consumer History and Everyday Life
  
• Environmental History and Everyday Life
• American Fun-damentalism: A History of Fun
• Histories of Hope: Doing History and Making History in America
• The Spirit of the Sixties and the Politics of Personalism
• Driving American History: Cars and Nature in National Life

Michael Fellman
Simon Fraser University, Emeritus
Michael Fellman is professor of history emeritus at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is author of seven books, including Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War (1989); Citizen Sherman (1995); The Making of Robert E. Lee (2000), and In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History (2009). He is also coauthor, with Daniel Sutherland and Lesley Gordon, of This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2nd ed., 2008).

Lecture Topics

• Redemption Through Blood: The Mississippi White Line Movement, 1875
  
• The Transferability of Otherness: American Soldiers Greet the Filipinos, 1898-1902
• In the Name of God and Country: Revolutionary and Reactionary Terrorism at the Haymarket, Chicago, 1886

John Ferling
University of West Georgia, Emeritus
John Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia, has written on topics ranging from warfare in colonial America to the lives of the Founders. The American Revolution, however, is his real passion. His newest book is The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon (2009). He is also author of the award-winning Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence (2007) and A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (2003); biographies of George Washington, John Adams, and Joseph Galloway, a Loyalist during the Revolution; and Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (2004).

Lecture Topics

• General Washington: Fortunate to Have Had Him, Lucky to Have Survived Him
  
• George Washington, Leader
• Myths of the Revolutionary War
• Could the British Have Won the Revolutionary War?
• John Adams: A Remarkable Man
• America’s First Pivotal Election: The Election of 1800

Leon Fink
University of Illinois at Chicago
Leon Fink is UIC Distinguished Professor of History and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he also edits the journal, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, and serves on the executive committee of the Institute for the Humanities. He is author or editor of seven books, including The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (2003), Progressive Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Democratic Commitment (1998), and In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture (1994). Fink has also taken a leading role in national history education circles, stressing the necessary collaboration between the university and the public schools, particularly as the American Historical Association's Vice President, Teaching Division, 1998-2001.

Lecture Topics

• American Workers and the World's Two Gilded Ages
  
• Reinterpretation, the Wizardry of Teaching American History: How a Classic Text Can Serve New Teaching Ends
• The Maya of Morganton: The Latino Adventure in the Nuevo New South
• Sweatshops at Sea: Rethinking Labor's Strategies in the Progressive Era
• Liberty Before the Mast: The Nineteenth-Century Sailor and the Political Narrative of Freedom

Paul Finkelman
Albany Law School
Paul Finkelman is the President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and senior fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. He has published more than twenty-five books, more than one hundred articles, and numerous op-eds on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, American race relations, American legal history, the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religion, and baseball and the law. He was the chief expert witness in the Alabama Ten Commandments monument case, and his work on the religion and legal history has been cited in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court involving this issue. He is currently writing a history of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry.

Lecture Topics

• Abraham Lincoln: Lawyer as Great Emancipator
  
• The Closing of the African Slave Trade: Congress, the Courts, and the Limits of Reform
• Ten Commandment Monuments in the Public Square: Separation of Church and State in Historical and Modern Perspectives
• Thomas Jefferson, the American Founders, and the Problem of Slavery in a "Free" Republic
• The Dred Scott Case, 150 Years Later
• "A Well Regulated Militia": The Original Meaning of the Second Amendment

Deborah Fitzgerald
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Deborah Fitzgerald is Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, and professor of the history of technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research centers on the history of agriculture and food in modern America. Her books include The Business of Breeding: Hybrid Corn in Illinois, 1890-1940 (1990) and Every Farm a Factory: The Industrial Ideal in American Agriculture (2003), winner of the Agricultural History Society’s Theodore Saloutos Prize. She is currently working on a project that examines the role of World War II in fundamentally reshaping the food industry and the nature of global food chains.

Lecture Topics

• Convenience and the Food Industry in World War II
  
• Industrializing Everything: Agriculture in Twentieth-Century America

Ellen Fitzpatrick
University of New Hampshire
One of the first class to graduate Hampshire College, Ellen Fitzpatrick is currently Carpenter Professor of History and director of graduate studies at the University of New Hampshire. She has received that university's Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Public Service, and she is author and editor of several books including History’s Memory: Writing America’s Past, 1880-1980 (2002), Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (1990), and a textbook, coauthored with Alan Brinkley, America in Modern Times (1996). She is currently working on a book on the 1968 presidential election and its larger consequences.

Lecture Topics

• The Press and the Presidency: Historical Perspectives
  
• Where We Were in '68: Presidential Politics and American Ideals
• American Liberalism and the Kennedy Brother

Donald L. Fixico
Arizona State University
Donald L. Fixico is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. A former Newberry Fellow and Ford Fellow, he is author of American Indians in a Modern World (2008), Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (2007), The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2003), The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000), The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: Tribal Natural Resources and American Capitalism (1998), and Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986). He is editor of the three-volume Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty (2007) and Rethinking American Indian History (1997).

Lecture Topics

• American Indian Leadership in History to the Present
  
• Gaming in Indian Country
• The Modern Indian from Relocation to Cities
• Native Americans, Natural Resources, and the Environment
• The American Indian Mind in a Linear World

Michael W. Flamm
Ohio Wesleyan University
Michael W. Flamm teaches modern U.S. history at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is author of Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s (2005) and coauthor of Debating the 1960s (2007), Debating the Reagan Presidency, and the Chicago Handbook of Teaching (1999). In 2006, he was named a Fulbright Senior Specialist.

Lecture Topics

• The Military and the Media in Historical Perspective
  
• The Rise, Reception, and Regulation of Radio, 1920-1945
• The New Right in Historical Perspective

Neil Foley
University of Texas at Austin
An associate professor of history and American studies at the University of Texas, Neil Foley has also taught U.S. history and literature in Spain, Germany, and Japan, and has received Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Fulbright, and Woodrow Wilson Center fellowships. His book, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (1997), won numerous awards, including the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He is also author of the forthcoming Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity, among other works.

Lecture Topics

• Are Hispanics White? The Social and Legal Construction of Latino Identity in the U.S.
  
• Mexican American and African American Post-Civil Rights Politics: Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century
• Beyond Black and White: Mexican Immigration, the Law, and the Politics of Race in America
• Mexican Immigration and What It Means for the Future of America

Miriam Forman-Brunell
University of Missouri-Kansas City
Miriam Forman-Brunell is professor of history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and codirector of Children and Youth in History, an instructional web resource http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/. She is author of Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood (1993) and Babysitter: An American History (2009), and editor of Girlhood in America: An Encyclopedia (2001) and The Story of Rose O'Neill: An Autobiography (1997).

Lecture Topics

• The Rise of the Teenage Girl and the Fall of Babysitting
  
• Dolls and the Material Culture of American Girlhood
• Girls' History: Shaping the Field, Defining the Canon

Ernest Freeberg
University of Tennessee
Professor of history at the University of Tennessee, Ernest Freeberg specializes in American religious and cultural history, with an emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His first book, The Education of Laura Bridgman (2001), winner of the American Historical Association's Dunning Prize, explores the antebellum philosophical and religious controversies raised by the education of the first deaf-blind person to learn language. His latest book Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (2008), winner of the David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Legal History, examines the imprisonment of socialist leader Debs and the national debate prompted by demands for his amnesty. He is currently writing a book about the impact of electric light on American culture.

Lecture Topics

• Eugene V. Debs and the Struggle for Free Speech
  
• Before Helen Keller: The Education of Laura Bridgman, First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
• How Many Historians Does It Take To Know the Light Bulb?: Helping Students to Think About Technological Change

Joanne B. Freeman
Yale University
Joanne B. Freeman is professor of history at Yale University, where she teaches Revolutionary and early national American history. She has lectured around the country, appeared in television documentaries for the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and PBS, and served as an historical adviser for the National Park Service. She is author of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic (2001), which won the best book award from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, and Alexander Hamilton: Writings (2001), and is currently working on a book on political violence and the culture of Congress in antebellum America.

Lecture Topics

• Affairs of Honor and Dishonor: Political Culture on the National Stage in Antebellum America
  
• Dueling as Politics: Reinterpreting the Burr-Hamilton Duel
• On the Trail of Alexander Hamilton
• The Political Jefferson
• Understanding the Politics of the 1790s

Donna Gabaccia
University of Minnesota
Donna Gabaccia is Rudolph J. Vecoli Professor at the University of Minnesota, where she is also the director of the Immigration History Research Center. As a specialist on international migrations, she has a particular interest in immigrant life in the United States and in Italian migration around the world. Her interests in food, women and gender, and labor have encouraged her to explore the United States, and U.S. immigration history, from comparative, transnational, interdisciplinary, and global perspectives.

Lecture Topics

• Imagining Nations of Immigrants
  
• If We Are What We Eat, Who are We?
• Foreign Relations: An International History of U.S. Immigration

Gary W. Gallagher
University of Virginia
Gary W. Gallagher is John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War at the University of Virginia. His most recent books include Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War (2008), The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864 (2006), Lee and His Army in Confederate History (2001), and The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History (2000), coedited with Alan T. Nolan.

Lecture Topics

• The Civil War in Recent Film and Art
  
• Battlefield Parks, the Lost Cause, and the Legacy of the Civil War
• Was Robert E. Lee an Old-Fashioned Soldier in a Modern War?
• Teaching the Civil War and Reconstruction: Themes and Strategies

Alison Games
Georgetown University
Alison Games teaches history at Georgetown University. She is author of Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (1999) and is currently working on a book that sets English colonial and commercial ventures in the Atlantic world into a global context.

Lecture Topics

• America's Global Origins
  
• Atlantic History: Definitions and Opportunities

Matt Garcia
Brown University
Associate professor of American civilization, ethnic studies, and history at Brown University, Matt Garcia is author of A World of Its Own: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1970 (2001) and coeditor of the forthcoming Geographies of Latinidad: Mapping Latina/o Studies for the Twenty-First Century. His current project project, The California South: Race, Labor, and Justice on the California Border, 1900-1980, explores the formation of agricultural empires in the California desert and the exploitation of natural resources and Mexican labor that made it possible.

Lecture Topics

• Geographies of Latinidad: Latino Community Formation from 1970 to the Present
  
• "The Wheels of Justice Do Not Move as Fast as Nature Grows Grapes": Women, Work, and Protest in the Age of the United Farm Worker's Grape Boycott
• Guest Workers, Free Trade, and the Making of U.S. Immigration Policy

María Cristina García
Cornell University
María Cristina García is professor of history at Cornell University, where she teaches courses on U.S. immigration and ethnic history, comparative migration in the Americas, Latino history, and United States-Cuba relations. She is author of Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida (1996) and Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada (2006), as well as a number of articles and essays on Latino/a history and refugee policy.

Lecture Topics

• Immigration History
  
• Cuban Migration to the United States
• Central American Migration
• United States-Cuba Relations
• Refugee Policy

Lloyd C. Gardner
Rutgers University
Lloyd C. Gardner is Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University, where he has taught since 1963. Most recently, he is author of The Road to Baghdad: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy from the 1970s to the Present (2008), The Case That Never Dies: The Lindbergh Kidnapping (2004) and Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam (1995) and coeditor of Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (2007), Vietnam: The Search for Peace (2004), The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In on U.S. Foreign Policy (2005).

Lecture Topics

• Why Intelligence Fails: The Vietnam Case
  
• LBJ: The War Trap
• Bush and Blair: Perfect Together
• Still the Crime of the Century: The Lindbergh Kidnapping

Edith B. Gelles
Stanford University
Edith B. Gelles is a senior scholar with the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. For thirty years, her research has focused on women in colonial America and especially on Abigail Adams and her family. She has written two biographies of Abigail and most recently completed Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage (2009), a double biography with the Adamses' life at its center. Her one extended foray outside of this Massachusetts fold has been to colonial New York City for the life of a Jewish matron, Abigaill Levy Franks. Franks' letters to her son, which date from 1733 to 1748 and have been edited by Gelles, are the earliest surviving corpus by a woman in the colonial western world. Gelles has taught American women's history at the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as the survey of world history.

Lecture Topics

• Abigail and John Adams: Portrait of a Marriage
  
• "Splendid Misery": The Presidency of John Adams and First Lady Abigail Adams
• The Adamses Retire
• A Vexed Friendship: Jefferson and the Adamses
• The Jewish Experience in Colonial America

Gary Gerstle
Vanderbilt University
Gary Gerstle is the James Stahlman Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He works on the twentieth-century United States, with a particular focus on how the United States periodically reconfigures its boundaries and national identity to open or close itself to immigrants and other minorities in its midst. His book, American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century (2001), won the Saloutos Prize for outstanding work in immigration and ethnic history and was recently named by NPR's Fresh Air as a "Best Book for a Transformative 2008." Gerstle also works on the history of American politics: social and labor movements, liberalism and the New Deal Order, and the nature of the American state. His current projects include a comparative and transnational history of race and nation in the United States, Mexico, and Cuba, and a book on the character and uses of state power in U.S. history. Gerstle has been awarded many fellowships and elected to the Society of American Historians.

Lecture Topics

• America's Encounter with Immigrants
  
• Minorities and Multiculturalism and the Presidency of George W. Bush
• The State and Democracy in America
• Race, Nation, and the American Presidency

Richard Godbeer
University of Miami
Richard Godbeer specializes in colonial and revolutionary America with an emphasis on religious culture, gender studies, and the history of sexuality. He taught for fifteen years at the University of California, Riverside, before joining the department of history at the University of Miami in 2004. He is author of The Devil’s Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England (1992), Sexual Revolution in Early America (2002), Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692 (2004), The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic (2009), and a forthcoming documentary history, The Salem Witch Hunt.

Lecture Topics

• Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
  
• Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic
• Attitudes toward Sex in Early America

Kenneth W. Goings
The Ohio State University
Kenneth W. Goings is professor of history in the department of African American and African studies at The Ohio State University. His books include The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker (1990) and Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping (1994), each of which won an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. He is currently working on a study of the teaching of Greek and Latin at historically black colleges and universities, and the role of the classics in African American life and culture.

Lecture Topics

• Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping
  
• Teaching the "Forbidden Subjects": The Role of the Classics in African American Uplift and Resistance
  

David Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
David Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and editor of the Journal of Urban History. He is author of Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture (1990), which received the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction and the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights; Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002); and Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred (2003).

Lecture Topics

• Waving the Confederate Battle Flag: The Uses and Misuses of Southern History
  
• The New Immigration and Race Relations in the United States Today
• Recent Research Trends in American Urban History
• After Civil Rights: Contemporary Race Relations in the American South
• God Bless the South: Religion and Southern Culture in the Twentieth Century
• Practicing Public History in Courtrooms and Museums: A Personal Perspective

Eric L. Goldstein
Emory University
Eric L. Goldstein is associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Emory University, where he also directs the graduate program in Jewish studies. He is author of the award-winning The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity (2006), which examines what it has meant to be Jewish in a nation focused on the categories of “black” and “white.” Editor of the quarterly journal American Jewish History, he is currently working on a project about Jewish immigrants and their encounter with mass culture in America.

Lecture Topics

• Jews in America's Racial and Ethnic Mix
  
• Are Jews White?: A History
• The Paradoxes of Identity: Jews in the American South
• Yiddish-Speaking Immigrants and American Mass Culture
• “Sociability and Bright Talk”: The Cafes of the Lower East Side

Edward E. Gordon
Independent Historian, Chicago, IL, and Palm Desert, CA
For 20 years, Edward E. Gordon taught at DePaul, Loyola, and Northwestern Universities in Chicago. Now as a fulltime author/researcher, he makes presentations at universities, schools, museums, and professional association meetings across the U.S. and Canada. He has developed many topics in social, cultural, and military history, and has authored 17 books, including the first comprehensive history of U.S. literacy, Literacy in America (2003), and Winning the Global Talent Showdown: How Businesses and Communities Can Partner to Rebuild the Jobs Pipeline (2009). He has appeared on CNN, NPR, and CBS, among other national/local media outlets. For more information, see http://www.historypresentations.com/.

Lecture Topics

• Gettysburg: Three Days that Changed the World
  
• From Fur Trappers to Trains: The Opening of the American West
• Empire of the Sun: Japan Triumphant (1931-1942)
• Air Power and the Secrets of the Normandy Invasion

Linda Gordon
New York University
Linda Gordon is Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University. She has published numerous books, including Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare (1994), winner of the Berkshire Prize; and The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction (1999), winner of the Bancroft Prize. She is coeditor of Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment (2006), which contains many never-before-seen photographs that had been impounded by the U.S. Army, and author of Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (2009).

Lecture Topics

• Birth Control and Abortion: A Long Historical View
  
• The Campaign Against Violence Against Women
• What's Wrong with "The Best Interests of the Child?"
• What's Wrong with "Putting Children First?"
• Several illustrated lectures on documentary photographer Dorothea Lange:
  -Visual Democracy: How Dorothea Lange Used Photography to Promote Equality
  -Impounded: Dorothea Lange's Hidden Photographs of the Japanese Internment in World War II
  -Dorothea Lange: The Conflicts of an Ambitious Woman
• The Much Misunderstood Women's Liberation Movement

Lesley J. Gordon
University of Akron
Lesley J. Gordon is professor of history at the University of Akron where she teaches courses in the Civil War and Reconstruction, U.S. military history, and the Early Republic. Gordon is author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend (1998); coeditor of Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and their Wives (2001) and Inside the Confederate Nation: Essays in Honor of Emory M. Thomas (2005); and coauthor of This Terrible War: The Civil War and its Aftermath (2003). She is currently completing a study of the Civil War's lasting effects on a northern regiment.

Lecture Topics

• George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
  
• So Much Suffering: The 16th Connecticut in War and Captivity
• Intimate Strategies: Civil War Military Commanders and Their Wives
• Cowardice and the American Civil War

Elliott J. Gorn
Brown University
Elliott J. Gorn teaches history at Brown University. He has written on sport and popular culture, and specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history. Gorn has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His most recent book is Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (2001).

Lecture Topics

• Searching for Mother Jones
  
• John Dillinger and Depression-Era America

James Green
University of Massachusetts Boston
James Green is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he directs the graduate program in public history. He is author of Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements (2000) and Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006). He has served as president of the Labor and Working Class History Association, as a lecturer in the Harvard Trade Union Program, and as research director for the PBS series "The Great Depression." He is currently writing a book about the West Virginia coal mine wars.

Lecture Topics

• The Haymarket Tragedy: A Drama Without End
  
• Marking Workers' Lives on the National Landscape: Labor History Meets Public History
• The West Virginia Mine Wars and the Meaning of Freedom in Industrial America
• How Social Protest Movements Have Shaped the Writing of U.S. History
• Why Teach Labor History When Labor Unions are Flat on their Backs?

James N. Gregory
University of Washington
James N. Gregory is Harry Bridges Endowed Chair of Labor Studies and professor of history at the University of Washington. His work focuses on labor, civil rights, radicalism, migration, and also public history. He directs the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project, a digital public history project. His most recent book, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (2005), won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award. American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California (1989) also won two major book prizes. He is currently writing a book about the history of radicalism on the West Coast.

Lecture Topics

• The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Reshaped Race, Religion, and Regions
  
  
• Southernizing America: Migration, Culture, and Political Change in the Twentieth Century
  
• The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project: How a Public History Project Changed the Law, Changed School Curricula, and More
• Teaching a City its Civil Rights History: How to Develop a Digital Public History Project that Connects the Campus to the Community

Robert A. Gross
University of Connecticut
James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History at the University of Connecticut, Robert A. Gross focuses on the social and cultural history of the United States. He has explored the era of the American Revolution in the Bancroft Prize-winning The Minutemen and Their World (1976) and in studies of Shays’s Rebellion. His current project examines the relationship between Transcendentalists Emerson and Thoreau and the New England world in which they lived and wrote. A third area of his scholarship centers on the history of the book in American culture. Finally, Gross has written on such themes as multiculturalism and transnationalism in American thought and life.

Lecture Topics

• Who Won the American Revolution?
  
  
• Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience
  
• From Red to Blue: The Politics of Regionalism in New England
  
• American Studies after 9/11
  
• Does Reading Have a History?
  
• Why Trust the Media? A View from Journalism History

Kali Nicole Gross
Drexel University
Kali Nicole Gross is associate professor of history and director of Africana studies at Drexel University. Her research focuses on crime, race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. She is author of Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 (2006), and is currently writing a book on the murder of a young mulatto named Wakefield Gaines, a crime that rocked Philadelphia in 1887.

Lecture Topics

• Black Female Criminals in Philadelphia, 1880-1910
  
• The Murder and Dismemberment of Wakefield Gaines

Ramón Gutiérrez
University of Chicago
Ramón Gutiérrez is Preston and Sterling Morton Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago. He previously taught at the University of California, San Diego, where he founded the ethnic studies department and its Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. Author of When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away (1991), and editor of six volumes, he is currently working on a study of the religious and political thought of Reyes López Tijerina, one of the leaders of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.

Lecture Topics

• Hispanic American History
  
• Race and Sexuality in American History

Lisbeth Haas
University of California, Santa Cruz
Lisbeth Haas is associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her early writing concerned Mexican-American, urban, and agricultural history, including Conquests and Historical Identities in California, 1769-1936 (1995), which examines historical identity, race, and land politics in California through cycles of conquest. She is currently writing a book on native history in Spanish colonial and Mexican California. Reflecting recent writing on Indian history and colonialism in North and South America, the work also addresses the meaning of freedom for native people upon their emancipation from the missions. Her work integrates a concern for how people define their history and legal rights, and favors placing U.S. history within the broader framework of the Americas.

Lecture Topics

• The Missions of California
  
• Native History of California and the West
• Chicano and Borderlands History
• Historical Memory
• Themes in California History

Steven Hahn
University of Pennsylvania
Steven Hahn is Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania and a specialist on the history of the American South and the comparative history of slavery and emancipation. He is author of A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration (2003), winner of the Bancroft Prize, the OAH Merle Curti Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize for history; and The Roots of Southern Populism: Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890 (1983), winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner Award. He is coeditor of The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation: Essays in the Social History of Rural America (1985) and the forthcoming Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, Land, and Labor in 1865.

Lecture Topics

• How About a Shorter Civil Rights Movement? Black Nationalism, Social Democracy, and the Limits of the Slavery to Freedom Narrative
  
• Can Slaves Practice Politics?
• Why the Civil War Mattered
• The Greatest Slave Rebellion in History
• Maroons and the Emancipation Process in the United States
  
• Roots and Shadows: The Social Base and Political Legacy of Garveyism

Jacquelyn D. Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jacquelyn Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History and director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is founding president of the Labor and Working Class History Association as well as past president of the Southern Historical Association and OAH. Recipient of a National Humanities Medal, she is author of Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching (1979) and coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987). She is currently coprincipal investigator for a project entitled "Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement."

Lecture Topics

• The Long Civil Rights Movement
  
• Feminist Biography
• Southern Women on the Left
• Southern Workers
• Self and Subject in Historical Writing

William M. Hammond
U.S. Army Center of Military History
Chief of the General Histories Branch at the U.S. Army's Center of Military History and Senior Lecturer in University Honors at the University of Maryland, College Park, William Hammond is author of the Army's groundbreaking two-volume history of its relations with the news media during the Vietnam conflict. He has also written Reporting Vietnam: Media and Military at War (1998), winner of the Leopold Prize, and is coauthor of Black Soldier, White Army: The 24th Infantry in Korea (1996), a study of the Army's last segregated infantry regiment.

Lecture Topics

• Who Were the Saigon Correspondents, and Does It Matter Today? Do Vietnam Precedents Still Apply to Military-Media Relations in Wartime?
  
• Black Soldier, White Army: The Korean War and Its Role in the Destruction of the Jim Crow Army

Sharon Harley
University of Maryland, College Park
Associate professor and chair of the African American studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park, Sharon Harley researches, teaches, and speaks frequently on black women’s labor history and racial and gender politics. Editor of and contributor to noted anthologies about black women in the modern Civil Rights movement and women of color in the global economy, she is currently writing a book about gender, labor, and citizenship in the lives of African Americans from the 1860s to 1920s.

Lecture Topics

• Black Women, Labor, and Citizenship from the Postbellum Period to Early Twentieth Century
  
• Black Women’s Cultural Production and Racial Politics
• Gloria Richardson
• Mary Church Terrell

Leslie Harris
Emory University
Leslie Harris is associate professor of history and African American studies at Emory University. She is author of In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 (2003) and coeditor, with Ira Berlin, of Slavery in New York (2005). She is currently at work on a family history of New Orleans between 1965 (Hurricane Betsy) and 2005 (Hurricane Katrina). She is also cofounder and director of the Transforming Community Project of Emory University, which seeks to engage all members of the university community in the active recovery of and reflection on the history of race at Emory and its meaning for the institution today.

Lecture Topics

• African Americans, Class, and Community in Pre-Civil War New York City
  
• Slavery in New York City
• On the Eve of Katrina: Life in Late-Twentieth-Century New Orleans
• Transforming Community at Emory University: An Institution Confronts its Racial History

Susan M. Hartmann
The Ohio State University
Susan Hartmann teaches U.S. history and women's studies and has published extensively on women in the twentieth century, feminism, and women's rights movements. Among her books are The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1983); From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since the 1960s (1989); a textbook, The American Promise (4th ed., 2008); and The Other Feminists (1998), a study of women's rights activism in the 1960s and 1970s. She is a recent fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars and has been elected fellow of the Society of American Historians.

Lecture Topics

• New Perspectives on Twentieth-Century Feminism in the U.S.
  
• Gender and Politics in Post-World War II America
• Material Interests and Economic Realities in the Wars over Feminism in the U.S. in the 1970s

Christine Leigh Heyrman
University of Delaware
Christine Leigh Heyrman is Grimble Professor of American History at the University of Delaware. Her books include Commerce and Culture: The Maritime Communities of Colonial Massachusetts, 1690-1750 (1984) and Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt (1998), which won the Bancroft Prize. She is also coauthor of the textbook, Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (6th ed., 2007). Her current research focuses on focuses on the first cohort of American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East (1820-1860).

Lecture Topics

• Holy Wars in Beulah Land: The Contest Among Evangelical Christians in the American South, 1770-1860
  
• First Encounters with the Indians: European Representations of Native Americans in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (with slides)
• Encounters with Islam: The First American Protestant Missionaries in the Middle East

Eric Hinderaker
University of Utah
Professor of History at the University of Utah, Eric Hinderaker is an historian of early North America with a particular interest in early modern empires and comparative colonization. He explores the ways that European empires negotiated and legitimized their authority in colonial settings. One dimension of this process relates to Indians: how did empires secure Indian lands, incorporate Indians as subordinate populations, and recruit them as allies, and how did Indians respond to those efforts? Another relates to colonists: how was authority expressed by the empire and contested by localities? From this perspective, events that seem quite different from each other--an Indian treaty, say, and the Boston Massacre--turn out to have similar underlying structures.

Lecture Topics

• British-Native American Diplomacy in a Transatlantic Context
  
• Boston's Massacre: Narrative, Memory, Meaning
• The Two Hendricks: Unraveling a Mohawk Mystery

Joan Hoff
Montana State University, Bozeman
An occasional commentator on the presidency for the "Newshour with Jim Lehrer," Hoff is currently research professor of history at Montana State University. She is former president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency, former executive director of OAH, and former director of the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University. She is also author, most recently, of A Faustian Foreign Policy from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush (2007), The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary (2000), Nixon Reconsidered (1994), and Law, Gender, and Injustice: A Legal History of U.S. Women (2nd ed., 1994).

Lecture Topics

• U.S. Twentieth-Century Diplomatic and Political History
  
• U.S. Women's Legal Status
• Modern Presidency
• The Nixon Presidency

Ronald Hoffman
College of William and Mary, and Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Ronald Hoffman is professor of history and director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William and Mary. As symposia director of the U. S. Capitol Historical Society from 1977-1993, he coedited the 15-book series, Perspectives on the American Revolution. His Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500–1782 (2000), written in collaboration with Sally Mason, won the Southern Historical Association's Owsley Award and the Library of Virginia's Literary Award for Nonfiction. The first three volumes of the Carroll Papers, Dear Papa, Dear Charley: The Peregrinations of a Revolutionary Aristocrat, as Told by Charles Carroll of Carrollton and His Father, Charles Carroll of Annapolis (2001) received, together with Princes of Ireland, the Maryland Historical Society's Book Prize. In 2006, the Carroll Papers won the American Historical Association's J. Franklin Jameson Prize for outstanding achievement in the editing of historical resources.

Lecture Topics

• Charles Carroll of Carrollton: An Eighteenth-Century Irish Catholic Odyssey
  
• Slavery and Thomas Jefferson's Quest for Moral Superiority in the Era of the American Revolution
• The American Revolution as a Civil War

Margaret A. Hogan
Massachusetts Historical Society
Margaret A. Hogan is managing editor of the Adams Papers and lead editor for the Adams Family Correspondence series, which publishes the letters of Abigail and John Adams, their children, and their extended family. With her colleague C. James Taylor, she recently edited My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams (2007). She also continues her research on the work and lives of Catholic sisters in antebellum Kentucky.

Lecture Topics

• My Dearest Friend: Abigail and John Adams in Letters
  
• Sister Servants: Kentucky Nuns before the Civil War

Kristin Hoganson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kristin Hoganson is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specialized in the United States in world context, cultures of U.S. imperialism, and women's and gender history. She is author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998) and Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007). Her current research, on the U.S. heartland, explores the expansive ends of local history.

Lecture Topics

• The American Empire, 1845-1920
  
• Buying into Empire: U.S. Consumption at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Armchair Travel and the Rise of the Tourist Mentality
• Popular Geographies of Food and Cooking
• Progressive Era Pluralism as Imperialist Nostalgia
• The Heartland as Borderland

Michael F. Holt
University of Virginia
A political historian with a particular interest in political parties, Michael F. Holt is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia. Most of his publications have dealt with antebellum political parties, but he has also written about Reconstruction. By One Vote: The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876 (2008) is his most recent book.

Lecture Topics

• Reconceptualizing Reconstruction
  
• The Civil War Era and the Two-Party System
• The Mysterious Disappearance of the American Whig Party
• Why Did the Republican Party Succeed in the 1850s?
• Lincoln and the Mexican War: Another Look

Woody Holton
University of Richmond
Woody Holton is associate professor of history at the University of Richmond. He is author of Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (1999), which won the OAH Merle Curti Award, and Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (2007). In 1990, Holton founded the environmental advocacy group “Clean Up Congress," which campaigned in support of pro-environment candidates.

Lecture Topics

• Abigail Adams, Bond Speculator
  
• Reining in the Revolution: Angry Farmers and the Origins of the Constitution
• The Accidental Revolution
• Revolt of the Ruling Class: How Indians and Slaves Helped Transform Jefferson and Washington into Revolutionaries
• “Divide et Impera”: The Tenth Federalist in a Wider Sphere

James Horn
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
James Horn is vice president of research for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is author of numerous books and articles on colonial America, most recently A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America (2005), and is currently editing the writings of Captain John Smith for the Library of America series.

Lecture Topics

• A Land As God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America
  
• The Pearl and the Gold: Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony of Roanoke

Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Smith College
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz is Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor of History and American Studies at Smith College. She is a cultural historian with a special interest in the history of women in the United States. She combines this with a fascination about the landscape and built environment. Her current research is on the history of mind/body question in the nineteenth century, and its relation to understandings of illness and health. This connects to her earlier work on the history of education, particularly of women's higher education. She is author of Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America (2002), which won the OAH Merle Curti Award, as well as editor of Landscape in Sight: Looking at America (1997), among other works.

Lecture Topics

• Women and Higher Education: Brain and Mind in the Nineteenth Century
  
• Why Were They Ill? Thinking about the Mind and Body in Nineteenth-Century America
• Rethinking Victorian Sexuality
• The Origins and Impact of the Comstock Law?
• J. B. Jackson and the Invention of the Lawn
• Letters in a Black Lace Stocking

Daniel Walker Howe
University of California, Los Angeles, emeritus, and Oxford University, emeritus
Dan Howe grew up in Denver and now lives in Los Angeles. He learned to love history when he was about 6 years old; his father put him on his lap and told him about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants to fight the Romans. He has taught at Yale, UCLA, and Oxford. He won the Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007). He is also author of Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (1997), and he intends his next book to be about the U.S.-Mexican War.

Lecture Topics

• "What Hath God Wrought": The Communications Revolution and its Consequences, 1815-1848 (illustrated)
  
• The Improvement of America and the Improvement of Americans, 1815-1848 (illustrated)
• "Honest Abe": Abraham Lincoln and the Moral Character
• Abraham Lincoln as a Self-Made Man
• Manifest Destiny and the War with Mexico (illustrated)

Frederick E. Hoxie
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fred Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has served as a consultant both to Indian tribes and government agencies, and his current research focuses on American Indian political activism and its impact on political institutions in the United States and elsewhere. His publications include A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians (1984); Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (1995); Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices from the Progressive Era (2001); and most recently, with David Edmunds and Neal Salisbury, The People: A History of Native America (2007) and, with Jay Nelson Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country
  
• Images of Native Americans in U.S. Historical Writing and Teaching
• Federal Indian Law: A Tool for Colonial Rule or Liberation?
• Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Leaders and American Politics

Madeline Y. Hsu
University of Texas at Austin
Madeline Y. Hsu is director of the Center for Asian American Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (2000) received the Association for Asian American Studies History Book Award. She is currently coediting an anthology, Chinese Americans and the Politics of Culture, with Sucheng Chan, and researching the Cold War intersections between American and Taiwanese foreign policy goals to migration policies and ethnic representations of Taiwanese Chinese in the United States.

Lecture Topics

• The Origins of Chop Suey: Chinese American Entrepreneurship at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  
• Gold Mountain Dreams and Paper Son Schemes: Chinese and the Earliest Systems of Illegal Immigration
• Wagging the Dog: Taiwanese Chinese and Cold War Ideas about Mobility and Race, 1950-1965
• Chinese Travelers in the Second Millenium: Migration and the Western Pacific

Heather Huyck
College of William and Mary
Heather Huyck's nearly thirty-year career as a public historian bridges academically based history and place-based history, especially history as found in the National Park system (she has visited 298 of 388 parks). The former director of the Jamestown 400th Project, she is visiting associate professor at the College of William and Mary. Her specialties are women's history, colonial history, and cultural resource management.

Lecture Topics

• America's History as Found in its National Parks
  
• Women, Women Everywhere
• Places of Colonial History: Telling the Whole Story
• Crowbars and Blue Books: Thirty Years of Bridging Academic and Public History
• Maggie Walker: African Americans Defy Jim Crow
• Preserving African American Resistance to Jim Crow

Matthew Frye Jacobson
Yale University
Matthew Frye Jacobson is professor of American studies, history, and African American studies at Yale University. He is author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America (2006), winner of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award; What Have They Built You to Do? The Manchurian Candidate and Cold War America (2006), with Gaspar Gonzalez; Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917 (2000); Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998), winner of the John Hope Franklin and the Ralph Bunche Prizes; and Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants of the United States (1995). He is currently at work on a study of anti-racism in U.S. culture in the post-war years, Odetta's Voice and Other Weapons: The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History.

Lecture Topics

• Race, Immigration, and U.S. Citizenship
  
• The History of "Whiteness" in U.S. Political Culture
• The Civil Rights Era as Cultural History
• Annexing the "Other": Immigration and Imperialism, 1876-1917
• White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America

Lisa Jacobson
University of California, Santa Barbara
Lisa Jacobson is associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she teaches courses in social and cultural history. She is author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (2004) and is currently working on a study of alcohol consumption and marketing after the repeal of Prohibition.

Lecture Topics

• From Impulsive Spendthrift to Savvy Spender: Imagining and Reforming the Child Consumer
  
• "Big Sales from Little Folks": The Emergence of Children’s Consumer Culture
• Alcohol Goes to War: Wine and Beer Promotion in World War II

David Jaffee
Bard Graduate Center
David Jaffee teaches early American history and material culture at the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture where he is also director of new media research. He is author of People of the Wachusett: Great New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 (1999) and is currently writing another book, Craftsmen and Consumer in Early America, 1760-1860. He has also written many essays on artists and artisans in early America as well as on the use of new media in the history classroom. He is project director of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants at his university to develop multimedia resources for the teaching of U.S. history.

Lecture Topics

• Visualizing History: Going Beyond Illustrating the Past
  
• Learning to Look: How Material and Visual Culture Help Us Understand the Past
• The Investigating U.S. History Project: Teaching with Multimedia Modules
• Interacting with the Past: Using New Media to “Do History”
• After the Revolution: The Age of Popular Portraiture

Caroline E. Janney
Purdue University
Caroline E. Janney is assistant professor of history at Purdue University where she teaches courses on the Civil War, Civil War memory, and women's history. Her first book, Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause (2008), explores the role of white southern women as the creators and purveyors of Confederate tradition in the immediate post-Civil War South. Her second book will examine how the Civil War was remembered between 1865 and the 1930s. She is particularly interested in how race, gender, and combat experience shaped the ways in which Americans thought about the war and its legacy.

Lecture Topics

• The Ladies' Memorial Associations: Confederate Women and the Lost Cause
  
• War at the Shrine of Peace: Efforts for an Appomattox Peace Monument
• LaSalle Corbell Pickett: The First Woman Who Welded Blue and Gray Together
• They Have Never Received Recognition: Remembering Northern Women and the Civil War
• Behind the Lines: The Home Front Experience in Civil War Petersburg

Robert F. Jefferson
Xavier University
Robert F. Jefferson Jr. is associate professor of African American studies and twentieth-century U.S. history at Xavier University in Ohio. He is author of Fighting for Hope: African American Troops of the 93rd Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (2008) and is currently working on a new book entitled Searching for Shadrach's Sons and Daughters: African American Ex-GIs and Disability in Modern American Wars.

Lecture Topics

• Black World War II GIs and the Civil Rights Movement
  
• Black Ex-GIs, Oral History, and Public Memory
• War, Race, and Disability in Modern American Wars
• African American GIs and World War II in Film
• African American Children, World War II, and Oral History

John W. Jeffries
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
John W. Jeffries is dean of arts, humanities, and social sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Author of books and articles on the politics and policy of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era and on the World War II home front, he has received campus and system-wide teaching awards as well. He recently edited the 1929-1945 volume of a new Encyclopedia of American History (2003) and is working on a study of domestic policymaking during World War II.

Lecture Topics

• Was World War II the "Good War"?
  
• The Domestic Impact of World War II
• Nature and Impact of the New Deal
• The Political Realignment of the 1930s
• Great Depression and the New Deal

Jacqueline Jones
University of Texas at Austin
Jacqueline Jones is Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas/Mastin Gentry White Professor of Southern History at the University of Texas at Austin. A former MacArthur Fellow and a member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, she specializes in U. S. southern, African-American, labor, and women’s history. She is author of several books, including, most recently, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War (2008), and Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001). She has also coauthored a history college textbook, Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the American People (3rd ed., 2008). She is currently revising Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present for a 25th anniversary edition to be published in 2010. She is also working on a book of essays on the fluidity of racial ideologies over time and place in American history.

Lecture Topics

• Topics vary
  

Peniel E. Joseph
Tufts University
Peniel E. Joseph is professor of history at Tufts University. He is author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (2006) and editor of The Black Power Movement: Rethinking the Civil Rights and Black Power Era (2006). He is currently working on a number of books, including A World of Our Own: Black Intellectuals and the Pan-African Dream, Any Day Now: African American Historical Criticism, and Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s.

Lecture Topics

• Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
  
• Revolution in Babylon: Stokely Carmichael and America in the 1960s
• 1968: Through the Trial of Huey Percy Newton
• The Black Panthers and American Democracy

Jane Kamensky
Brandeis University
Jane Kamensky is professor of American history and chair of the history department at Brandeis University, where she has won two awards for excellence in teaching. Her major publications include The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse (2008), a finalist for the George Washington Prize; and Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England (1997). She is also author of the novel Blindspot (2008), jointly written with Jill Lepore. She is currently at work on a book about the life and work of the painter Gilbert Stuart.

Lecture Topics

• Boom and Bust: Rising and Falling in Early America
  
• Gilbert Stuart: The American Artist as Atlantic Artisan
• Gilbert Stuart and George Washington: Faces of the New Nation

Walter D. Kamphoefner
Texas A&M University
Walter D. Kamphoefner has taught at Texas A&M University since 1988 and has published widely on immigration and ethnicity, with articles in four languages and three authored or coedited books in German and English. Since his pioneering transatlantic study, The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (1987), he has worked extensively with immigrant letters, and on bilingual education and the immigrant language transition. While his research focuses mainly on Germans, he regularly teaches a multi-ethnic course on immigration past and present.

Lecture Topics

• What's New about the Newest Immigration? Two Centuries of Historical Perspective
  
• Elvis and Other Germans: Some Observations and Modest Proposals on the Writing of Ethnic History
• German Texans: Model Minority or Reluctant Americanizers?
• What German Americans Fought For: Evidence from their Civil War Letters

Stephen Kantrowitz
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephen Kantrowitz is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has earned several teaching awards. His research focuses on the relationship between race and citizenship in the era of emancipation. His first book, Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White Supremacy (2000), explored the forces that defeated Reconstruction and interracial politics in the late nineteenth-century South. His current project, Colored Citizens: Boston's Black Activists Confront Slavery and Freedom, 1840-1890, traces the efforts of a generation of organizers, speakers, and politicians to reimagine the place of African Americans in the nation.

Lecture Topics

• How Ben Tillman Got His Pitchfork
  
• Who Freed the Slaves?
• Before There Was Glory: Antebellum Struggles for Black Militia Service
• Imagining Brotherhood: African American Freemasonry in the Nineteenth Century

Steven M. Karr
Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center
Steven M. Karr, Ahmanson Curator of History and Culture and acting director at the Southwest Museum of the American Indian, Autry National Center, specializes in Native cultures of North America and the history of American Indian museums. Previously, he worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. He has taught American Indian history at both the University of California Berkeley and University of California Los Angeles, and has been published in the American Indian Law Review, the American Indian Quarterly, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal.

Lecture Topics

• Creating a Better Exhibition: Content and Native Collaboration
  
• Museums and the Development of American Indian Anthropology
• Exhibition as Monograph: Interpreting Native History through Material Culture

Stanley N. Katz
Princeton University
An expert on American legal and constitutional history, Stan Katz is director of Princeton's Center for Arts and Cultural Policy and lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is past president of OAH and the Society for Legal History as well as president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies. He is working on a history of the long and difficult relationship of the United States to the international human rights system.

Lecture Topics

• America's International Dilemma: Why Doesn't the U.S. Fully Participate in the International Human Rights System?
  
• John Dewey and the Civic Purposes of General Education
  
• Constitutionalism and Human Rights: The Dilemma of the United States
• Gun-Barrel Democracy? Democratic Constitutionalism Following Military Occupation: Reflections on the U.S. Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq
• The "Just" University
• Who's Afraid of Senator Byrd? Constitutionalism and American History

Harvey J. Kaye
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development and director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. An award-winning author and editor committed to the study of the making of American democracy, Kaye has published fifteen books on history, politics, and ideas; contributed articles and essays to a diverse array of American and international publications; and appeared as a guest on numerous television and radio programs. His most recent books include Thomas Paine: Firebrand of the Revolution (2000), Are We Good Citizens? (2001), and Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (2005).

Lecture Topics

• Thomas Paine and the American Revolution
  
• Thomas Paine and the American Democratic Tradition

Michael Kazin
Georgetown University
Michael Kazin is professor of history at Georgetown University. He is author of four books about American politics and social movements including, most recently, A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006), and coeditor of Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (2006). He writes frequently for scholarly and popular periodicals.

Lecture Topics

• The Failure and Success of American Radicalism
  
• William Jennings Bryan and the Fate of the Christian Left
• How to Understand the 1960s and How Not To
• The Causes of Conservative Victory, 1964-2004
• The Use and Abuse of Americanism

Mary Kelley
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Past president of the American Studies Association and the Society of Historians of the Early Republic, Mary Kelley is the Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has received numerous fellowships and awards, including the New Hampshire Teacher of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The author, coauthor, and editor of seven books, she published most recently Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic (2006).

Lecture Topics

• Intersections: Women's History and Cultural History
  
• Reading Culture/Reading Books: Print and Public Life in Nineteenth-Century America
• Women's and Gender History: Sources and Strategies

David Kennedy
Stanford University
David Kennedy is an award-winning teacher at Stanford University and author of several books on American history, including Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Parkman Prize in 2000.

Lecture Topics

• What the New Deal Did
  
• How the United States Won World War II
• The Dilemmas of Difference in American Democracy
• Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Study in Leadership
• The Great Depression: Causes, Impact, Consequence
• Can the United States Still Afford to Be a Nation of Immigrants?

William Howland Kenney
Kent State University
William Howland Kenney, professor of history and American studies at Kent State University, researches the roles of music in the cultural history of the United States. His latest book, Jazz on the River (2005), digs behind the stereotyped images created by the novel and Broadway play "Show Boat" to interpret African American levee life and music from New Orleans to Pittsburgh. His current work contextualizes the phonograph, its leading American inventors, and international corporations in the context of French history and culture, bringing, for the first time, the American music industry into a trans-Atlantic historical perspective.

Lecture Topics

• The Historical Functions of Jazz and Vernacular Music in the United States
  
• Sound Recording and American Popular Memory
• Jazz on the River: Music, Race, and the Parade of Power on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, 1880-1980
• American Influence on Recorded Sound and Music in France, 1857-Present

Linda K. Kerber
University of Iowa
Linda Kerber is May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts, professor of history, and lecturer in law at the University of Iowa, and a fellow of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent book is the prizewinning No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (1998). A past president of OAH, the American Historical Association, and the American Studies Association, Kerber also conducts workshops on the role of learned societies in the historical profession, developing manuscripts from dissertation to book, and other topics of professional interest. She has also worked on strengthening connections between secondary schools and academic historians and on academic exchanges between the United States and Japan.

Lecture Topics

• Statelessness in America
  
• Why Diamonds Really Are a Girl's Best Friend, and Other Things You Need to Know about American History

Alice Kessler-Harris
Columbia University
Alice Kessler-Harris teaches American history and women’s studies at Columbia University. Much of her research explores labor, women and gender, and social policy through the experiences of wage-earning women, and utilizes comparative and interdisciplinary frames. In recent years, she has turned to biography as a way of interpreting the past. Her current project focuses on the life of the American playwright, Lillian Hellman.

Lecture Topics

• Sex, Lies, and History: The Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
  
• Gendering Labor History: The Future of the Past

Daniel J. Kevles
Yale University
Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, Daniel J. Kevles has long taught American history and written extensively about the history of science, technology, and their relationship to American democracy. His works include The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (1978); In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (1985); and Inventing America (2nd ed. 2006), a coauthored history of the United States that integrates science and technology into the American narrative. His latest work is the forthcoming Vital Properties, a history of innovation and ownership of living matter.

Lecture Topics

• Science, Arms, and the State in the Twentieth Century
  
• Eugenics, the Genome, and Human Rights
• From Counterculture to Cash Culture: The United States in the 1970s
• The Apples of Our Eyes: Innovation, Art, and Ownership of American Fruits

Alexander Keyssar
Harvard University
Alexander Keyssar is the Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (1986) received several scholarly prizes, including the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award; it was also named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. He is also author of The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (2000), which received the AHA Beveridge Prize. He is coauthor of Inventing America: A History of the United States (2d. ed., 2006) and has written widely on public policy issues in the popular press.

Lecture Topics

• The Strange Career of the Right to Vote in the United States
  
• Why do We Still Have the Electoral College?

Cynthia A. Kierner
George Mason University
Cynthia A. Kierner is professor of history at George Mason University, where she teaches early American and women’s history. She is author of Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson’s America (2004) and Beyond the Household: Women’s Place in the Early South, 1700-1835 (1998). Past president of Southern Association for Women Historians, she is currently writing a biography of Martha Jefferson Randolph and coauthoring a volume on Virginia women's history.

Lecture Topics

• Scandal at Bizarre: Sex, Rhetoric, and Reality in Jefferson’s America
  
• Martha Jefferson Randolph, Virginian
• Women, Families, and Politics in Revolutionary America

Wilma King
University of Missouri-Columbia
Wilma King holds the Strickland Professorship in African American History and Culture at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her most recent work, Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (1995), won the Outstanding Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. She is presently working on two studies of free black women and African American children.

Lecture Topics

• The Essence of Liberty: Free African American Women Before Slavery Ended
  
• Africa's Progeny in America: African American Children in Historical Perspective, 1600-2000
• The Life Cycle of Slave Children in the Nineteenth-Century South

Michael J. Klarman
Harvard University
Michael J. Klarman is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which are primarily in the areas of constitutional law and constitutional history. His book, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (2004), received the Bancroft Prize in History.

Lecture Topics

• Why Brown v. Board of Education Was a Hard Case
  
• Brown and the Civil Rights Movement
• Various topics in American constitutional history

Rachel Klein
University of California, San Diego
Rachel Klein is a member of the history department at the University of California, San Diego. She began her career as an historian of the American South, but her research and teaching interests turned towards nineteenth-century urban culture. She is author of Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808 (1990) and is completing a book manuscript entitled “Culture Wars: Art, Authority and the Transformation of Taste in Nineteenth-Century New York.”

Lecture Topics

• The Uses of Art and Artists in Mid-Nineteenth- Century Sentimental Culture
  
• New York's Metropolitan Museum and the Transformation of Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
• Art, Institutions, and the Culture Wars of Antebellum New York City

Matthew Klingle
Bowdoin College
Matthew Klingle is associate professor of history and environmental studies at Bowdoin College. He specializes in urban, environmental, and Western North American history. He is author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle (2007), winner of the OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize. A former high school history teacher, he has received Bowdoin's Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for teaching excellence. He was also a fellow and former trustee of the Environmental Leadership Program. His current research focuses on the co-evolution of conservation and environmentalism with mass consumer culture. He is particularly interested in connecting scholarly research to contemporary environmental concerns as well as primary and secondary history education.

Lecture Topics

• Metronatural: The Nature of Inequality in the North American City
  
• Natural Desires: Toward an Environmental History of American Consumerism
• Greening Clio: The Role of History in Environmental Studies
• The Nature of History: Teaching Environmental History in Primary and Secondary Schools

Richard H. Kohn
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard Kohn is professor of history and peace, war, and defense at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has served on the faculties of City College of New York, Rutgers University, and the Army and National War Colleges, and as Chief of Air Force History for the U.S. Air Force. In recent years he has concentrated on civil-military relations. He coedited Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil Military Gap and American National Security (2001) and coauthored The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II (1997).

Lecture Topics

• Civil-Military Relations in the United States
  
• The War on Terrorism

Peter Kolchin
University of Delaware
Peter Kolchin, the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware, is author of First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction (1972); Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987); American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993); and A Sphinx on the American Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003). Winner of the Bancroft Prize, the OAH Avery Craven Award, and the Southern Historical Association's Charles Sydnor Award, he is currently working on a comparative study of emancipation and its aftermath in Russia and the U.S. South, a sequel to Unfree Labor.

Lecture Topics

• Interpreting and Reinterpreting American Slavery
  
• The American Civil War and Emancipation in Comparative Perspective

Virginia Sánchez Korrol
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Historian Virginia Sánchez Korrol is author of From Colonia to Community: The History of Puerto Ricans in New York City (1994), coauthor with Marysa Navarro of Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (1999); and coeditor with Vicki L. Ruiz of Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography and Community (2005) and the award-winning Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006). She consults on museum exhibits, television documentaries, and educational projects, and serves on the boards of Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage and the New York Academy of History. She directs Latinas in History, an interactive project for pre-collegiate students, and researches New York Latinas in the Antillean independence movement.

Lecture Topics

• Puerto Rican Roots in Nineteenth Century America
  
• New York Latinas and Antillean Independence, 1868-1898
• Puerto Rican Women and the Shaping of New York
• Latinas in American History: An Innovative Approach to Teaching with Technology

Robert Korstad
Duke University
Robert Korstad is Kevin D. Gorter Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and History at Duke University where he codirects the Duke Program on History, Public Policy, and Social Change. He is author of Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2003) and The North Carolina Fund: Advance Guard in America’s War on Poverty; coeditor of Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk About Life in the Segregated South (2001), and coauthor of Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987).

Lecture Topics

• America’s War on Poverty
  
• The Long Civil Rights Movement: The 1940s
• The Southern Cotton Mill World
• “Behind the Veil”: African American Life in the Jim Crow South
• Civil Rights Unionism

J. Morgan Kousser
California Institute of Technology
Morgan Kousser's book, Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction (1999), draws on testimony he has delivered as an expert witness in nineteen federal voting rights cases and before Congress. The author of more than 100 articles and book reviews, he has lectured extensively at universities in America and England.

Lecture Topics

• Do We Still Need The Voting Rights Act?
  
• "Colorblind" Injustice: The Supreme Court and the Counter-Revolution in Voting Rights
• Brown Out: Los Angeles' Crawford School Desegregation Case and the Nature of Racial Discrimination in America

Alan M. Kraut
American University
Alan M. Kraut is professor of history at American University, where he has been named Scholar/Teacher of the Year. He is author or editor of eight books, including the award-winning Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (2003). Most recently, he is coauthor, with his wife Deborah, of Covenant of Care: Newark Beth Israel and the Jewish Hospital in America (2007) and coeditor of American Immigration and Ethnicity: A Reader (2005) and From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Age (2008). Kraut has served as a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island History Committee, consultant to the National Park Service and documentary filmmakers, and adviser to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and PBS's "History Detectives."

Lecture Topics

• "Mirrors of the Culture": Jewish Hospitals in the History of American Healthcare
  
• Prejudice and the Rise of the Ethnic Hospital
• Immigration and Public Health Policy on Ellis Island
• Dr. Joseph Goldberger’s War on Pellagra
• Who Heals the Stranger? The Provision of Healthcare in Immigrant Communities, 1850-Present
• The United States and the Holocaust

Jon Kukla
Independent Historian, Richmond, VA
Jon Kukla is a recognized authority on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history, with special emphasis on the early history of Virginia. Former director of Red Hill--the Patrick Henry National Memorial--and of the Historic New Orleans Collection, he has written extensively about American history and culture for the major historical journals and in several books, including A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America (2003). His most recent book is Mr. Jefferson’s Women (2007).

Lecture Topics

• All Men are Created Equal: Thomas Jefferson and Women
  
• Monroe and Livingston vs. Lewis and Clark: The Louisiana Purchase and American Civic Memory
• Patrick Henry and the American Revolution
• Thriving Outside the Grove: Reflections of a Public Historian
• The Louisiana Purchase in its World-History Context

Karen Ordahl Kupperman
New York University
Karen Ordahl Kupperman's scholarship focuses on the Atlantic world in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She is author, most recently, of The Jamestown Project (2007) on the founding of Jamestown in the context of England's engagement with the Atlantic world. Her book, Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America (2000) won the American Historical Association's Prize in Atlantic History. Her Providence Island, 1630-1641: The Other Puritan Colony (1993) won the Albert J. Beveridge Award. Kupperman is currently working on two projects: a book on the Atlantic world and a scholarly edition of Richard Ligon's True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657, 1673).

Lecture Topics

• Why Jamestown Matters
  
• Music as a Mode of Communication in Cross-cultural Encounters

Peter J. Kuznick
American University
Peter J. Kuznick is associate professor of history and director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America (1987) and coeditor of Rethinking Cold War Culture (2001), he studies nuclear issues, past and present, and is writing a book about scientists and the Vietnam War. In 2003, he helped found the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy in response to the latest Smithsonian Enola Gay exhibit and helps coordinate the Nuclear Education Project. He has also written a screenplay on the early Cold War.

Lecture Topics

• Lost Cause: Henry Wallace’s Struggle to Change the Course of History, 1944-1946
  
• The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman and the Atomic Bomb
• Averting “a Disaster Incomprehensible in its Magnitude”: Scientists' Opposition to the U.S. Invasion of Vietnam
• Creating a “Science of Survival”: The Anti-Nuclear Roots of the Scientists’ Anti- Vietnam War Movement
• Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s and 1960s America

Naomi R. Lamoreaux
University of California, Los Angeles
Naomi R. Lamoreaux is professor of economics, history, and law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (1985) and Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (1994). Her current research focuses on the U.S. patent system and the location of inventive activity, legal regime and businesses’ choice of organizational form in the U.S. and France, and the public/private distinction in American history.

Lecture Topics

• The Strange Career of the Right to Privacy
  
• From the Borough of London to Enron: Problems of Corporate Governance in Historical Perspective
• The Patent System and the Golden Age of the Independent Inventor
• Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons for Silicon Valley from Early Twentieth-Century Cleveland

Ann J. Lane
University of Virginia
Ann Lane is best known for her biography of the early twentieth-century feminist writer and critic, To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as several edited volumes of Gilman's fiction and nonfiction. Lane is also author of Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard, The Brownsville Affair: National Outrage and Black Reaction, and The Debate Over "Slavery": Stanley Elkins and His Critics. She is completing a book on sex between faculty and students in the American academy.

Lecture Topics

• Consensual Sexual Relations Between Faculty and Students: Gender, Power, and Sexuality in the Academy
  
• Sex and the Professors: Gender, Power, and Sexuality
• Women's History: An Overview

Nancy Langston
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nancy Langston is president of the American Society for Environmental History and professor of environmental humanities in the Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies and the department of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West (1995) and Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (2003), and coauthor of the interdisciplinary textbook, Ecology (2000). Her current research examines the links between environmental toxins and women's bodies.

Lecture Topics

• Gender, Toxins, and Environmental History
  
• The Retreat from Precaution: Science, Uncertainty, and the Failure of Government to Protect Us from Toxins

Chana Kai Lee
University of Georgia
Chana Kai Lee is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Georgia. She is author of For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1999), which won the Willie Lee Rose Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She served as U.S. field editor for the award-winning Encyclopedia of Women in World History (2008) and is currently working on a collection of essays about historical memory, black feminism, and women's sexualities.

Lecture Topics

• The Post-1945 Black Freedom Struggle
  
• African Americans and Historical Memory
• Black Feminist Thought
• American Biography
• Power and the Practice of History

Stuart Leibiger
La Salle University
Stuart Leibiger is associate professor of history and department chair at La Salle University. He specializes in Revolutionary and early national America. He is author of George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic (1999). He has written numerous articles on the Founders and has appeared in several television documentaries. Since 2003, he has been Scholar-in-Residence for the NEH Landmarks of American History Program at George Washington's Mount Vernon.

Lecture Topics

• George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic
  
• George Washington and the Constitution
• James Madison: Republican Revolutonary
• Miracle at Philadelphia: The 1787 Constitutional Convention

Elizabeth D. Leonard
Colby College
Elizabeth D. Leonard is John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History and director of the women's, gender, and sexuality studies program at Colby College. She is author of Yankee Women: Gender Battles in the Civil War (1994); All the Daring of the Soldier: Women of the Civil War Armies (1999); and Lincoln's Avengers: Justice, Revenge, and Reunion after the Civil War (2004). She is currently working on two book projects: a biography of the Civil War-era judge advocate general, Joseph Holt, and a study of black soldiers in the U.S. Army between the end of the Civil War and 1895.

Lecture Topics

• Women in the Civil War
  
• The Lincoln Assassination
• Civil War-era Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
• Black Soldiers in the U.S. Army, 1865-1895

Jill Lepore
Harvard University
Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and chair of the History and Literature Program at Harvard University. She is author of Blindspot (2008) (a novel written jointly with Jane Kamensky) and New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan (2005); an elected member of the Society of American Historians; cofounder of the magazine, Common-place; and a staff writer at The New Yorker. In 2006, she received the Kidger Award for service to the historical profession from the New England History Teachers' Association. Her research has focused on language, cruelty, race, and the writing of history. She is currently working on a biography of Benjamin Franklin and his sister, Jane Mecom.

Lecture Topics

• Speculation and Historical Writing
  
• Benjamin Franklin and His Ill-Starred Sister

Earl Lewis
Emory University
Earl Lewis is provost and executive vice president for academic affairs as well as Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. Most recently, he is coeditor of The African American Urban Experience: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (2004) and coauthor of Defending Diversity: Affirmative Action at the University of Michigan (2004). He also served as general editor, with Robin D. G. Kelley, of the eleven-volume Young Oxford History of African Americans (1997-2000). An important voice in national policy on graduate education, he is or has been a member of several editorial boards and boards of directors, including the Council of Graduate Schools and the Graduate Records Exam.

Lecture Topics

• Becoming Urban: African Americans, Migration, and Community Building
  
• The Color of Race: Implications from the Rhinelander Story
• Diversity in American Democracy
• The Multiple Stories of African Americans: More than One Narrative

Allan J. Lichtman
American University
Allan J. Lichtman is professor of history at American University. His areas of scholarship include the American presidency, conservative politics, quantitative methodology, and voting rights and redistricting. He has published more than 100 scholarly and popular articles as well as six books, including, most recently, White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement (2008) and The Keys to the White House (rev. ed. 2000), which explains and predicts presidential election results. He provides commentary for major U.S. and foreign broadcast companies, and has served as an expert witness in more than 70 federal voting rights and redistricting cases. He has received the Scholar/Teacher Award at American University, the highest faculty award.

Lecture Topics

• Who Will Be the Next President of the United States?
  
• Conservative Politics in Twentieth-Century America
• The American Presidency: An Overview
• Voting Rights and Redistricting in Recent American History

Patricia Nelson Limerick
University of Colorado Boulder
Patricia Limerick is a former president of the American Studies Association and the Western History Association. She is author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987) and Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West (2000).

Lecture Topics

• A Ditch in Time: The Lessons of Water in Denver, Colorado
  
  
• Transforming Hindsight into Foresight: Seizing the Opportunities of "Applied History"
• Colonialism and Imperialism in the American West

Leon F. Litwack
University of California, Berkeley
Leon Litwack is A.F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and a past president of OAH and the Southern Historical Association. His publications include North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980), winner of the Pulitzer and Francis Parkman prizes; and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). He is writing a sequel to Trouble in Mind that will focus on black southerners and race relations from the 1930s to 1955.

Lecture Topics

• Pearl Harbor Blues: Black Americans and World War II
  
• Trouble in Mind: African Americans and Race Reflections from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement
• On Becoming an Historian
• To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock (an impressionistic multi-media examination of American society, with an introductory lecture on American society after 1945)
• Fight the Power: Black Americans and Race Relations after the Civil Rights Movement
• Lincoln and Black Freedom

James W. Loewen
University of Vermont, Emeritus
James W. Loewen is coauthor of the revisionist state history Mississippi: Conflict and Change (1974), and author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong (1995) and Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (1999), among other books. He has been an expert witness or consultant in more than fifty class action lawsuits, mostly in civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, and education. His Sundown Towns (2006) tells how thousands of communities in America excluded African, Chinese, Jewish, or Native Americans between 1890 and 1970s, and how some still do. His new book, Teaching What Really Happened (2009), offers specific methods and information to help K-12 U.S. history teachers go beyond the textbook and get their students excited about doing history.

Lecture Topics

• How History Keeps Us Racist, and What to Do About It
  
• Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong about Labor History and Social Class
• What History Books Don't Tell about Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and John Brown, and Why It Matters
• How American History in School and on the Landscape Demeans Native Americans
• Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, and Multiculturalism
• Sundown Towns

Kyle Longley
Arizona State University
Kyle Longley is Snell Family Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the history department at Arizona State University. He teaches a variety of courses on modern America, and his publications include The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States during the Rise of José Figueres (1997), In the Eagle’s Shadow: The United States and Latin America (2002, Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick (2004), and Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam (2008). He is also editor of Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President (2006). Currently, he is researching and writing The House of the Purple Hearts: The Morenci 9, Small-Town America, and the Vietnam War.

Lecture Topics

• The Unequal Burden: Small-Town America and Its Sacrifices during the Vietnam War
  
• Why They Fought: The Vietnam Combat Soldier and His/Her Decision to Join the Military
• The Southern "Liberal" in Modern American Politics: Battles for the "Heart and Soul" of a "New South" in Age of Dramatic Change
• Deconstructing Reagan: Conservatives and the Mythology of America’s Fortieth President
• Global Superpower: The United States and the World during the "American Century"
• The Most Dangerous Area in the World: The United States and Latin America Over Four Centuries

Bonnie Lynn-Sherow
Kansas State University
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow is associate professor of history at Kansas State University. Her research and teaching have focused primarily on the history of different peoples' interactions with the rural environment of the American West. Specifically, she has researched and written on the ways in which western industrial agricultural practices have shaped and simplified ecological systems and their consequences for various human communities. Her recent research has considered the cultural capital of Indian peoples in the 1920s as they were exploited as symbols of nature in mass marketing by non-Indians and how that same system was, in turn, exploited by Native peoples themselves to their own advantage. Her research also treats the effect of industrial agriculture on agro-ecological systems in the West.

Lecture Topics

• Race and Agriculture
  
• Environmental History of Agricultural Settlement in the American West
• North American Indians and the Environment
• Environmental History of Industrial Agriculture
• Nature and Culture in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

James H. Madison
Indiana University
James H. Madison is Thomas and Kathryn Miller Professor of History and former chair of the history department at Indiana University. He has been teaching there since 1973 and has also taught at Hiroshima University in Japan and at the University of Kent in England. His most recent books are A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America (2001) and Slinging Doughnuts for the Boys: An American Woman in World War II (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Lynching, Race, and Memory in Twentieth-Century America
  
• What We've Learned About World War II
• An American Woman in World War II Europe

Chandra Manning
Georgetown University
Chandra Manning teaches nineteenth-century U.S. history at Georgetown University. Her first book, What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery and the Civil War (2007), won the OAH Avery O. Craven Award and received honorable mentions in the Lincoln Prize, the Jefferson Davis Prize, and the Virginia Literary Award in Nonfiction competitions. She is working on a book about contraband camps and the movement of former slaves during the Civil War.

Lecture Topics

• Civil War Soldiers and Slavery
  
• Lincoln and Union Soldiers
• Contraband Camps: Slaves, Union Soldiers, and the Uncertain Beginnings of Freedom

Maeva Marcus
New-York Historical Society and George Washington University
Maeva Marcus is director of the Graduate Institute for Constitutional History (formerly the Institute for Constitutional Studies) located at the New-York Historical Society and the George Washington University Law School. President of the American Society for Legal History, she is editor of the completed eight-volume series, The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800. Her other publications include Truman and the Steel Seizure Case (1977) and Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1992).

Lecture Topics

• Judicial Review in the Early Republic
  
• The Judiciary Act of 1789: Political Compromise or Constitutional Interpretation?
• George Washington's Appointments to the Supreme Court
• Separation of Powers in the Early National Period
• Is the Supreme Court a Political Institution? An Eighteenth-Century View

James Marten
Marquette University
James Marten is professor of history at Marquette University, where he teaches courses on the Civil War and on children's history. He is author of The Children's Civil War (1998), which was selected as an “Outstanding Academic Book” by Choice Magazine; editor of Children and War: An Historical Anthology (2002) and Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A Brief History with Documents (2004); and director of the Children in Urban America Project, an online archive of documents related to the history of children, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Lecture Topics

• No Medals, No Monuments: Children during the Civil War
  
• The Child and the City: Urban Children during the Progressive Era
• A Generation Set Apart: Union Civil War Veterans and Northern Society
• Children of War: Actors and Victims

Waldo E. Martin Jr.
University of California, Berkeley
Waldo E. Martin Jr. is author, most recently, of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America (2005), as well as Brown v. Board of Education: A Short History With Documents (1998) and The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1985). With Patricia A. Sullivan, he coedited Civil Rights in the United States: An Encyclopedia (2000). Aspects of the modern African American freedom struggle and the history of modern social movements unite his current research and writing interests.

Lecture Topics

• From Civil Rights to Black Power: Modern American Identity and Cultural Politics
  

Edith P. Mayo
National Museum of American History
Edith Mayo is curator emerita in political history at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Her books include First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image (1995), The Smithsonian's Book of First Ladies (1996), and, most recently, Presidential Families (2006). Her "Enterprising Women" lecture is based on research for a major traveling exhibition on women business entrepreneurs for the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Lecture Topics

• From Parlor to Politics: Women and Reform in America, 1890-1926
  
• First Ladies: Political Role and Public Image
• Images of Women in the Woman Suffrage Campaign
• Black Women Role Models at the Turn of the Century
• Enterprising Women: 250 Years of Women in Business
• Presidential Families

Stephanie McCurry
University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie McCurry is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research and teaching focus on the history of the nineteenth-century United States, particularly on the history of the South and of women and gender. Her first book, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the South Carolina Low County (1995), on the antebellum period and the politics of secession in South Carolina, initiated an exploration of the social history of politics and the gendered history of political culture that she continues to pursue. The book she is currently writing is a study of the Confederate political project and its undoing in the course of the nation's bloodiest war.

Lecture Topics

• Soldiers' Wives and Confederate Politics
  
• The Perfected Republic of White Men: The Confederate Project and Its Undoing
• The Confederate Debate Over Arming the Slaves

Michael A. McDonnell
University of Sydney
Michael A. McDonnell is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is author of The Politics of War: Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (2007) which won the New South Wales Premier's History Prize, and numerous articles on the Revolutionary War, one of which won the Lester Capon Prize for best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly and was chosen for inclusion in OAH's The Best American History Essays 2008. He is currently finishing a book on métis Charles Langlade, the Anishinaabeg, and the Atlantic World, and beginning a new project on memory, history, and nation-making.

Lecture Topics

• The Politics of War: How Racial and Class Conflicts Shaped the Revolution in Virginia
  
• The Price of Patriotism: The Suppression of Dissent and the American Revolution
• The Politics of War, The Politics of History: Writing Class Back into the History of Early America
• Resistance to the Revolution: Disentangling Patriots, Loyalists, and the Disaffected
  
• The Revolution in American Life: Memory, History, and Nation-Making from 1776 to Today
• The View from Mackinac: Charles Langlade, the Anishinaabeg, and the Atlantic World

Michael McGerr
Indiana University
Michael McGerr, Paul V. McNutt Professor of History and adjunct professor of African American and African diaspora studies at Indiana University, teaches and writes about modern American history. His most recent books are A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (2003) and the forthcoming The Public Be Damned: The Vanderbilts and the Unmaking of the Ruling Class. He is coauthor of Making a Nation: The United States and Its People (2002). He is also coediting a collection of primary source documents on the history of American popular music since the Civil War. He has received several teaching awards, including Indiana University's Sylvia Bowman Award.

Lecture Topics

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: What Happened to the American Upper Class?
  
• The History of the Present: Interpreting the Post-Cold War, Postindustrial, Postmodern United States
• "Jazzing Away Prejudice": The Liberating Promise of African American Music
• The "Great Work of Reconstruction": Progressive Reformers and American Liberalism

Lisa McGirr
Harvard University
Lisa McGirr is associate professor of history at Harvard University where she teaches twentieth-century U.S. history. Her most recent book, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001), examines the national Right's rise from the grassroots. Her current research is focused on the 1920s, revisiting the Sacco-Vanzetti case as well as writing a social and cultural history of national prohibition.

Lecture Topics

• American Conservatism and Right-Wing Movements in the Twentieth Century
  
• The Origins of the New Right
• The Sacco-Vanzetti Case in International Perspective
• Social and Political History of Prohibition

Danielle L. McGuire
Wayne State University
Danielle L. McGuire is assistant professor of history at Wayne State University. Her interests are African American women's organizing and activism in the postwar American South, sexual violence as a weapon of terror, and the role of gender and sexuality in the civil rights movement. She is author of the forthcoming At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle.

Lecture Topics

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott as a Women's Movement for Dignity
  
• Rosa Parks, the Radical
• African American Women, Sexual Violence, and the Segregated South
• Sex and Civil Rights
• Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

Sally G. McMillen
Davidson College
After moving to the South from California, Sally McMillen became fascinated by the region and the role of women there. Currently she is professor and chair of history at Davidson College in North Carolina, where she has taught since 1988. A prizewinning teacher, she is also author of Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing (1990); the textbook Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South (1991, 2002); To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915 (2002); and most recently, Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement (2008).

Lecture Topics

• Southern Women: Myth and Reality
  
• Seneca Falls, 1848, and Women's Fight for Equality
• To Raise Up the South: The Southern Sunday School, 1865-1915

Joanne Pope Melish
University of Kentucky
Joanne Pope Melish is associate professor of history at the University of Kentucky, where she teaches American and African American history. Her research focuses on slavery, emancipation, and the development of racial ideologies from the colonial period through Reconstruction, especially in the northern colonies and states. She is author of Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860 (1998) and is currently working on a book about the evolving racial order and how it was encoded in language in the northern United States between 1780 and 1880.

Lecture Topics

• Northern Slavery and Emancipation
  
• Emancipation and Abolition (Northern and Southern) in Comparative Perspective
• The Evolving Language of "Race" in the Northern United States, 1780-1880
• Antebellum Free People of Color: Struggle and Context
• American Slave Systems in Comparative Perspective

Martin V. Melosi
University of Houston
Martin V. Melosi is Distinguished University Professor of History and director of the Center for Public History at the University of Houston. He is author, most recently, of The Sanitary City: Environmental Service in Urban America from Colonial Times to the Present (abridged ed., 2008) and editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 8: Environment (2007). For more than thirty years, he has been interested in the intersection among urbanization, technology, and the environment, and the policy implications thereof. His research has focused on a variety of pollution sources that have had an impact on urban growth and development. He has examined city services as a way to understand what citizens expect of city leadership and how these services relate to environmental goals and wants. He also has had a longstanding interest in the use and development of energy sources. In recent years, his work on the urban environment has taken him all over the world, and, while language differences are sometimes daunting, the common problems that cities face globally are a point of mutual concern and mutual interest.

Lecture Topics

• The Origins and Impact of the Environmental Justice Movement
  
• The City, Technology, and the Environment
• Atomic Age America
• In Search of the Sanitary City
• Public History and the Environment

Joanne Meyerowitz
Yale University
Joanne Meyerowitz is professor of history and American studies at Yale University and former editor of the Journal of American History. Her most recent book is How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality (2002).

Lecture Topics

• "How Common Culture Shapes the Separate Lives": Sexuality, Race, and Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Constructionist Thought
  
• A Different History of Gender
• Sex Wars of the 1950s

Tony Michels
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tony Michels is George L. Mosse Associate Professor of American Jewish History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses in American Jewish history, with a special emphasis on immigration, politics, and comparative ethnic history, as well as courses in labor history and radical political movements. His research focuses on the political and cultural history of the Jews. He is author of A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York (2005), winner of the Salo Baron Prize from the American Academy for Jewish Research, and is currently working on a book about the relationship of American Jews to Soviet Russia between the 1920s and 1960s.

Lecture Topics

• American Jewish History (especially twentieth-century immigration)
  
• Yiddish Culture
• Radical Political Movements and the Labor Movement in the United States

Patrick B. Miller
Northeastern Illinois University
Patrick B. Miller is professor and chair of history at Northeastern Illinois University, author of the forthcoming The Playing Fields of American Culture: Athletics and Higher Education, 1850-1945, and coauthor (with David K. Wiggins) of The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport (2003). He has also edited The Sporting World of the Modern South (2002) and coedited The Civil Rights Movement Revisited (2001).

Lecture Topics

• Muscular Assimilationism: Sport and the Paradox of Racial Reform
  
• The Unlevel Playing Field: Interpreting the African American Experience in Sport
• "Fields of Friendly Strife": College Sport and the Shaping of American Culture

Marla R. Miller
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Director of the public history program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Marla R. Miller researches and writes about women and work in early America. Her book The Needle's Eye: Women and Work in the Age of Revolution (2006) is a study of the New England clothing trades before industrialization. She also consults regularly with museums and historic sites across the northeast.

Lecture Topics

• Object Lessons: Rewriting the History of Clothing and Community in Federal New England
  
• Going Public With History: Community History and the Professional Historian

Char Miller
Pomona College
Char Miller is director and W. M. Keck Chair of Environmental Analysis at Pomona College. Author of the award-winning Gifford Pinchot and The Making of Modern Environmentalism (1993), Deep in the Heart of San Antonio: Land and Life in South Texas (2004), and Ground Work: Essays in American Environmental Culture (2007), he is coauthor of The Greatest Good: 100 Years of Forestry in America (2nd ed., 2004) and editor of The Atlas of U.S. and Canadian Environmental History (2003). He consulted on the documentary, "The Greatest Good: A Forest Service Centennial Film."

Lecture Topics

• The Greatest Good: A Century of Conservation in America
  
• Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism
  
• Running Dry: Water in the West
• Crisis Management: A History of the U.S. Forest Service
• Surging Waters: Floods and Flood-Control in the American Southwest

Clyde A. Milner II
Arkansas State University
Clyde A. Milner II is director of the Ph.D. program in heritage studies and professor of history at Arkansas State University. Known for his research, writing, and editing on the history of the American West and of Native Americans, Milner now applies his interest in American regionalism and cultural identity to the Mississippi Delta and the interdisciplinary initiatives of heritage studies. For eighteen of his twenty-six years on the faculty at Utah State University, Milner edited the Western Historical Quarterly. He has written or edited eight books, including two with his wife, Carol O'Connor; the Oxford History of the American West (1994) and As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart (2009).

Lecture Topics

• Shared Memories and Misleading Histories: Examples from the American West
  
• South by West: Thoughts on Two Regions (joint lecture with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Carol A. O'Connor, for no additional fee)
• A Big Western Life: The Challenging Biography of Granville Stuart (joint lecture with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Carol A. O'Connor, for no additional fee)

Nancy Raquel Mirabal
San Francisco State University
Nancy Raquel Mirabal is associate professor of Raza/Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research interests include Latina/o history, Afro-diasporic migration, oral historical procedure and practice, and the uses of gendered location and space. She is currently directing a community oral history of gentrification and its impact on the Latina/o community in the Mission District of San Francisco. Her recent publications include "Displaced Geographies: Latina/os, Oral History, and the Politics of Gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District"; Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies (2005); “‘Ser de Aquí’: Beyond the Cuban Exile Model,” reprinted in American Dreams, Global Realities: Rethinking United States Immigration History (2005); and “‘No Country, but the One We Must Fight For’: The Emergence of an ‘Antillean’ Nation and Community in New York City, 1860-1901,” in Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York (2001).

Lecture Topics

• History of Spanish Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Diaspora in the U.S.
  
• Early History of Spanish Caribbean/Afro-Caribbean Women in the U.S.
• Oral History: Practice, Procedure, Methodologies, and Theory
• Latina/o History: Theory, Narrative, Practice
• U.S. Cuban History

Jeffrey Mirel
University of Michigan
Jeffrey Mirel is the David L. Angus Collegiate Chair of Education, professor of history, and an associated faculty member in the Center for Russian and East European Studies at University of Michigan. He is author of The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit 1907-81 (2nd ed., 1999), which won book awards from the American Educational Research Association as well as the History of Education Society. He is coauthor, with David Angus, of The Failed Promise of the American High School, 1890-1995 (1999). He is currently working on a book about education and the Americanization of European immigrants in the first half of the twentieth century.

Lecture Topics

• What Went Wrong in Urban Public Schools? What Can We Do to Fix Them?
  
• “Don't Know Much About History, Don't Know Much Biology”: Curriculum Reform and the Problems of American High Schools
• Negotiating a New Nation: How European Immigrants Responded to Americanization and Changed America in the Process, 1890-1930

Douglas Monroy
Colorado College
Douglas Monroy is professor of history at the Colorado College. He is author of Thrown among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (1990), winner of the OAH James Rawley Prize; Rebirth: Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (1999); and The Borders Within: Encounters with Mexico and America (2008), a book of essays on a variety of topics including the missions of California, the novel Ramona, American liberalism and Mexico, and NAFTA and immigration.

Lecture Topics

• The Missions Live: Indians, Priests, Devotion, and Reconciliation
  
• After the Days of Cows, Fiestas, and Honorable Caballeros: Forging the Californio Legacy
• Woodrow Wilson’s Guns: American Liberalism and the Problem of Mexico
• When the Past Speaks to Chicano Historians: Mission Indians, Boxers, and Movie Stars
• Revisioning Ourselves Anew: Mexicans, Americans, and the New World Border

Maria E. Montoya
New York University
Maria E. Montoya is associate professor of history at New York University. She was formerly the director of the Latina/o studies program at the University of Michigan where she also taught history and was in the Program in American Culture. She is author of numerous articles and the book Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict Over Land in the American West, 1840-1920 (2002). She is currently working on a book about company towns in the American West, focusing particularly on the coal mining communities associated with the Rockefeller Corporation in Colorado and the World War II-era workers with the Kaiser Corporation in California.

Lecture Topics

• Creating an American Home: Gender, Geography, and Resistance in America's Company Towns
  
• Work, Women, and Wobblies: The IWW Strikes in Colorado's Coal Fields, 1927
• The Real Story of Josefina Montoya, American Girl: Women, Property, and Conquest on the Mexican Frontier
• Landscapes of War: Remaking the Western Landscape in the Cold War
• The Mistranslation of Property: Mexican Land Grants and the Legal Conflict Over Land in the American West
• American Progress: Westward Expansion and the American Dream

Deborah Dash Moore
University of Michigan
Deborah Dash Moore is Frederick C. L. Huetwell Professor of History at the University of Michigan and director of the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. She is author of To the Golden Cities: Pursuing the American Jewish Dream in Miami and L. A. (1994); coauthor of Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images (2001); and coeditor of the award-winning Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (1997). Her most recent work, GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation (2004), charts the lives of fifteen young Jewish men as they wrestled with what it meant to be an American and a Jew.

Lecture Topics

• GI Jews: How World War II Changed a Generation
  
• Immigration in American Jewish History
• American Jewish Identity Politics or What the 1960s Wrought
• American Jews and Urban Photography (illustrated)

Philip Morgan
Johns Hopkins University
Philip Morgan is the Harry C. Black Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. His Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998) won the Bancroft, Beveridge, and Frederick Douglass prizes. He is coeditor most recently of Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age (2006), as well as Colonial Chesapeake Society (1988), Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire (1991), and Black Experience and the British Empire (2004). He is working at the interface of Caribbean and North American history in the early modern era.

Lecture Topics

• African American Life in Lowcountry Georgia and the Early Modern Atlantic World
  
• The World of Books and the World of Slavery: A Jamaican Case Study
• Early Modern Atlantic History: A New Paradigm?
• Black Rice? Africans and the Development of Rice Culture in the Americas
• York: The Slave on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• Black Sailors in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Jennifer L. Morgan
New York University
Jennifer L. Morgan is professor of history and of social and cultural analysis at New York University. Her research examines the intersections of gender and race in colonial America, and she is author of Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery (2004). She is currently at work on a project that considers colonial numeracy, racism, and the rise of the transatlantic slave trade, tentatively entitled Accounting for the Women in Slavery.

Lecture Topics

• Gender and Slavery in the Atlantic World
  
• Women and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• Race and Reproduction

Katherine Morrissey
University of Arizona
Katherine Morrissey is associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. Her research on the North American West focuses on the region's environmental, social, and cultural history. She is author of Mental Territories: Mapping the Inland Empire (1997) and Picturing Arizona: The Photographic Record of the 1930s (2005). She is currently writing a book on the environmental and cultural history of mining environmental conflicts in the early twentieth-century West, including those along the United States/Mexico and United States/Canada borders.

Lecture Topics

• Picturing the 1930s Southwest: Regional Photography during the New Deal
  
• The Nature of Conflicts: Mining Pollution in the Early Twentieth-Century North American West
• Mapping the West
• Whose Property? Whose Health?: Border Environmental Disputes
  

Kevin Mumford
University of Iowa
Kevin Mumford is associate professor of history and African American studies at the University of Iowa, where he teaches African American history, civil rights, and the history of sexuality. His research looks at long-term social inequalities and the dynamics of oppression and resistance in cities. He is author of Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century (1997) and Newark: A History of Race, Rights, and Riots in America (2007) and is at work on a study of black gay history from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Lecture Topics

• Lincoln's Progeny: "Miscegenation" and "Mulattoes" in Historical Perspective
  
• Civil Rights, Sexual Politics, and African American Gay History

Alice Yang Murray
University of California, Santa Cruz
Alice Yang Murray is associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her publications include Historical Memories of Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress (2004), Major Problems in Asian American History (2003), and What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean? (2000). She teaches courses on Asian American history, historical memory, race, gender, oral history, World War II, and twentieth-century America. She is currently researching transnational memories of World War II in the Pacific between 1945 and 2005.

Lecture Topics

• Historical Memories of Japanese American Internment
  
• Japanese American Redress and the Passage of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988
• Racial Profiling, Wartime Hysteria, and Lessons from World War II
• Historical Memories of World War II in the U.S. and Japan

Scott Reynolds Nelson
College of William and Mary
Scott Nelson is Legum Professor of History at the College of William and Mary and author of Iron Confederacies (1999) and popularly acclaimed Steel Drivin' Man (2006), which also won the OAH Merle Curti Prize. A children's book entitled Ain't Nothing But a Man: My Quest to Find the Real John Henry (2007) is based on his research. He is coauthor of A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America's Civil War (2007), and is currently working on a history of the international wheat trade, the Panic of 1873, and the intertwined lives of Dwight Moody, Sigmund Freud, Anton Chekhov, and Rosa Luxemburg.

Lecture Topics

• Take this Hammer: The Death of John Henry and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll, 1868-1930
  
• Liquid Labor East and West: Coerced Migrations of Irish and Chinese Railroad Workers, 1862-1870
• What do Historians Do All Day?
  
• The Revolution of Little Cans: How the Contents of a Union Soldier's Haversack Internationalized American Industry, 1862-1900
• From Mortgage Crisis to Market Meltdown: The Infamous 1870s

Mae M. Ngai
Columbia University
Mae M. Ngai is professor of history and Lung Family Professor of Asian American studies at Columbia University. Her research and teaching focus on twentieth-century U.S. history, with emphasis on immigration and ethnicity, politics and law, and labor. She is especially interested in problems of nationalism, citizenship, and race as they are produced historically in law and society, in processes of transnational migration, and in the formation of ethno-racial communities. She is author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004), winner of the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Prize.

Lecture Topics

• Illegal Immigration: Origins and Consequences
  

Roger L. Nichols
University of Arizona
Currently a professor of history at the University of Arizona, Roger L. Nichols has taught in Europe twice as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and has served as president of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. His research and teaching focus on American frontier expansion, settlement and Indian affairs. His recent publications include The American Indian: Past and Present (2008) and American Indians in U.S. History (2003).

Lecture Topics

• Contemporary Indian Affairs: Bones, Casinos, and Mascots
  
• The United States, Canada, and the Indians: Comparisons
• Starting Indian Wars: A Many-Sided Story
• Western Attractions: Europeans and America

Kim E. Nielsen
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Kim E. Nielsen is professor of history and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She has published multiple books and articles, advised several film documentaries, and won numerous academic and teaching awards, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Stipend and a Fulbright Scholar Award to the University of Iceland. Her newest book is Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller (2009).

Lecture Topics

• "We Please God Better with Useful Deeds": Helen Keller's Social Activism
  
• Historical Thinking and Disability History
• Beyond the Miracle Worker: Anne Sullivan Macy

Carl H. Nightingale
University at Buffalo, the State University of New York
Carl H. Nightingale is associate professor of history in the American Studies department at the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. His first book, On the Edge: A History of Poor Black Children and Their American Dreams (1993), was based on his experiences living in inner-city Philadelphia during the 1980s and '90s. He is currently working on a book entitled Race Cities which analyzes the emergence of residential segregation of cities by race as a global phenomenon with its origins in European imperial expansion.

Lecture Topics

• The Ghetto in the Global Village: Urban Racial Segregation as a World Historical Phenomenon
  
• Cities and the Invention of the Color Line

Gregory H. Nobles
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gregory H. Nobles is professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he also directs the university's honors program. He specializes in early American and environmental history, and his most recent book is American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest (1997). He is currently at work on two books: Whose American Revolution Was It? Historians Confront the Founding, coauthored with Alfred F. Young; and Naturalist Nation: The Art and Science of Birds in Audubon’s America.

Lecture Topics

• The Contradiction of Slavery in the Era of the American Revolution
  
• Ornithology and Ordinary People: The Sources of Citizen Science in Audubon's America
• The American Hunter-Naturalist: Suffering for Science in the New Nation

Kenneth W. Noe
Auburn University
Kenneth Noe is Draughon Professor of Southern History at Auburn University. His specialty is the American Civil War as it occurred in the Upper South and especially in Appalachia. He is author or editor of five books on the Civil War era, including most recently Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (2001), as well as many articles.

Lecture Topics

• The Future of Civil War History
  
• The Battle of Perryville
• The Civil War In Appalachia
• Reluctant Rebels: The Confederates Who Joined the Army After 1861

Lisa Norling
University of Minnesota
Lisa Norling is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches courses in U.S. social history, women’s history, and maritime history. She also teaches at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut every summer and serves as a consultant to the USS Constitution Museum in Boston. Her publications include the anthology Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920 (1996) and Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery 1740-1870 (2000), which won the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award as well as the Lyman Award from the North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History. Her current research focuses on eighteenth-century oceanic travel, especially women’s experiences at sea.

Lecture Topics

• Captain Ahab Had a Wife: Sailors' Wives and Widows in Nineteenth-century America
  
• Quaker Wives and Cape Horn Widows: Colonial Women in New England Seaports
• Sister Sailors and Hen Frigates: American Women at Sea in the Age of Sail
• Captured at Sea in 1863: Lucy Lord Confronts Confederate Captains and Chinese Corsairs
• Which History? The Battle over K-12 Social Studies Standards in Minnesota

Mary Beth Norton
Cornell University
A Pulitzer Prize finalist, Mary Beth Norton is a specialist in early American history and American women's and gender history. She has lectured extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Norton is author of several books including In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692 (2002) and Founding Mothers and Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1997).

Lecture Topics

• Gender and Society in Seventeenth-Century America
  
• The Salem Witchcraft Crisis
• Petitioners and Fund-Raisers: Women's Collective Political Activism in Early Modern England and America

Carol A. O'Connor
Arkansas State University
Carol A. O'Connor brings a lifelong interest in local and community studies to the department of history at Arkansas State University where she holds the rank of professor. In addition, O'Connor serves as associate dean of the College of Humanities and Social Studies there. During her twenty-five years on the faculty at Utah State University, she gravitated to topics that related to her region: eastern suburbs, western cities, and the mixed-race frontier of the Mountain West have all attracted her attention. She wrote A Sort of Utopia: Scarsdale, 1891-1981 (1983) and coedited the prizewinning Oxford History of the American West (1994). Together with her husband, Clyde Milner II, she is also author of As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart (2009).

Lecture Topics

• The Lure of the Local: Why You Should or Should Not Study Your Home Town
  
• South by West: Thoughts on Two Regions (joint lecture with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Clyde A. Milner II, for no additional fee)
• A Big Western Life: The Challenging Biography of Granville Stuart (joint lecture with OAH Distinguished Lecturer Clyde A. Milner II, for no additional fee)

Susan O'Donovan
University of Memphis
Currently an NEH fellow at the Newberry Library, Susan O’Donovan is professor of history at the University of Memphis; author of Becoming Free in the Cotton South (2007), winner of the OAH James A. Rawley Prize; and coeditor of two volumes from the Freedmen and Southern Society Project. Her current project, “Slaves and the Politics of Disunion,” explores the extent to which enslaved women and men helped shape this formative moral and political debate. She is also a lead participant on the British-based project, “After Slavery: Race, Labour, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas,” examining the historical circumstances that gave rise to new and violent forms of racial subordination.

Lecture Topics

• The Politics of Slaves
  
• The Genders of Freedom
• Making Slavery's Cotton
• Freedom's Many Faces

Barbara B. Oberg
Princeton University
Barbara B. Oberg is a lecturer with the rank of professor at Princeton University and general editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. She was previously editor of the Papers of Benjamin Franklin at Yale University. She is coauthor, with Doron Ben-Atar, of Federalists Reconsidered (1998) and, with Harry S. Stout, of Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards, and the Representation of American Culture (1993). She has held fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Past president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Association for Documentary Editing, and the Society for Textual Scholarship, she currently serves on the council of the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture and on the board of trustees of Colonial Williamsburg. During 2008-2009, she will be the R. Stanton Avery Senior Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in California.

Lecture Topics

• Parties, Politics, and Power: The Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
  
• A Curtain of Separation: The Friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
• Mr. Jefferson’s Alexander Hamilton

Gary Y. Okihiro
Columbia University
Gary Y. Okihiro is professor of international and public affairs and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Columbia University. He is author, most recently, of The Columbia Guide to Asian American History (2001) and Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States (2008). He is past president of the Association for Asian American Studies and recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the American Studies Association.

Lecture Topics

• Asian American History
  
• Asians and Africans in America

Peter S. Onuf
University of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, Peter S. Onuf has written extensively on sectionalism, federalism, and political economy, with a particular emphasis on the political thought of Thomas Jefferson. Most recently, with his brother, political theorist Nicholas G. Onuf, he collaborated on Nations, Markets, and War: Modern History and the American Civil War (2006), a history of international law and order in the Atlantic states' system during the Age of Revolutions and early nineteenth century, and a collection of his essays, The Mind of Thomas Jefferson (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Thomas Jefferson, Race, and Slavery
  
• Thomas Jefferson's West
• Thomas Jefferson and Religion
• Federalism, Sectionalism, and the Union
• Rethinking the History of American Democracy

David M. Oshinsky
University of Texas at Austin and New York University
David M. Oshinsky is Jack S. Blanton Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has received the university's Raymond Dickson Centennial Teaching Award. He is also Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University during fall semesters. His books include A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (1983) and Worse Than Slavery (1996), which garnered the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for distinguished contribution to human rights. His latest book, Polio: An American Story (2006), won both the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Hoover Presidential Book Award, and his articles and reviews appear regularly in the New York Times and other national publications.

Lecture Topics

• Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Campaign
  
• Senator Joe McCarthy: The Verdict of History
• Mississippi Burning: Closing the Case on the Civil Rights Killings of 1964

Lisa L. Ossian
Des Moines Area Community College
Lisa L. Ossian is associate professor of history at Des Moines Area Community College. She has conducted research on Iowa during the Depression and World War II years as well as a national survey of children's experiences during that war. She has been elected twice to the State Historical Society of Iowa's Board of Trustees as well as the Herbert Hoover Presidential Education Committee, and she also serves on the review panel of National Education Association's Thought and Action journal. She is author, most recently, of The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945 (2009).

Lecture Topics

• The Great Depression and World War II
  
• Children (especially during World War II)
• Agriculture

Ted Ownby
University of Mississippi
Ted Ownby is professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. He is author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (1993), and American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture, 1830-1998 (1999), and editor of books on ideas in the Civil Rights era and southern manners. He is working on a book about the conflicting definitions of family life in the twentieth-century American South.

Lecture Topics

• "Is There Still an American South?" An Historian Critiques the Question
  
• Roots, Divorce, "Free Bird," and Family Values: Debating Southern Family Life in the 1970s
• Brotherhood and Its Problems in Twentieth-Century Southern History
• Shopping in Mississippi History
• Family History, Gender History, and Southern History
• The American South in the 1970s

T. Michael Parrish
Baylor University
T. Michael Parrish is Linden G. Bowers Professor of American History at Baylor University where he enjoys teaching an undergraduate course on Texas history every semester as well as graduate seminars on the Civil War and Reconstruction, public history, and religion and war in U.S. history. Early in his career, he worked in the rare book and publishing business, and as a research archivist at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum. He is author of Brothers in Gray: The Civil War Letters of the Pierson Family (1997) and the forthcoming P. G. T. Beauregard: The Civil War and Southern Power, among other books, and also serves as editor or coeditor for three Civil War book series.

Lecture Topics

• Texas and Texans in the Civil War
  
• Limited War, Limited Peace: The Civil War and Reconstruction
• Religion and War in U.S. History

James T. Patterson
Brown University, Emeritus
James T. Patterson is Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he taught for thirty years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well as the history of medicine, race relations, and education. His publications include America in the Twentieth Century (5th ed., 2000); The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture (1987); Bancroft Prize winner, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996); America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000); Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy (2001); and Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to 9/11 (2005).

Lecture Topics

• The U.S.A. from Watergate to 9/11
  
• Black Family Life, 1960s to the Present
• The Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision on Race Relations and Schools

Gunther Peck
Duke University
Gunther Peck is associate professor in the history department and the Terry Sanford Institute for Public Policy at Duke University where he teaches courses in immigration, labor, western, environmental, and policy history. His first book, Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West (2000), won the Phillip Taft award in labor history and the Ray Allen Billington award in frontier history. He is currently working on two book projects: a history of white slavery in Great Britain and the U.S. from the 1820s to the present; and an exploration of changing working-class uses and perceptions of nature in North America.

Lecture Topics

• The Nature of Labor: Working-class Visions of the Environment, 1800-Present
  
• White Slavery, National Freedoms: Race, Labor, and Sex in the Making of a Transnational Moral Panic
• Immigrants and Free Labor in North America, 1865-Present

William Pencak
Pennsylvania State University
William Pencak is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. His recent Jews and Gentiles in Early America: 1654-1800 (2005) stresses that as early American society became more democratic, it also became more antisemitic. His current research is on the Jay family, focusing on the accomplishments and limits of aristocratic reform over several generations. He is also finishing a book on how Rev. William White shepherded a discredited Church of England at the end of the Revolution into the well-respected American Episcopal Church, which rejected the emotional religious fervor of the more populist denominations while supporting education for women, social reform, and rights for African Americans.

Lecture Topics

• Desecrating Jewish Cemeteries in Early America: Antisemitism, Religious Toleration, and Jewish Gentile Relations before 1800
  
• An Enlightened Faith: Bishop William White of Philadelphia, the Rejection of Enthusiasm, and the Creation of the American Episcopal Church
• From Huguenot Immigrants to the American Huguenot Society: Four Generations of the (John) Jay Family, 1725-1890
• John Adams on HBO: History and Mythmaking
• The Civil War, 1861-1865: What Does It Mean?

Dylan C. Penningroth
Northwestern University
Dylan C. Penningroth is associate professor of history at Northwestern University and a research fellow with the American Bar Association. He works on African American history, with special interests in the history of slavery and emancipation, property, and family, and African history. His book, The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South (2003), won the OAH Avery O. Craven Award.

Lecture Topics

• Black Divorce in the Jim Crow Era
  
• How Could Slaves Own Property?
• Legacies of Slavery in Ghana

Theda Perdue
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Theda Perdue is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States and on gender in Native societies. Her book, Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998), won the Southern Association of Women's Historians' Julia Cherry Spruill Award and the Southern Anthropological Society's James Mooney Prize. She is past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, editor of the anthology, Sifters: The Lives of Native American Women (2001), and coauthor, with Michael D. Green, of the Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast (2001) and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (2007). Her Lamar Lectures at Mercer University were published as "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (2003), and her most recent book is Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition (2010).

Lecture Topics

• Indians in the Segregated South
  
• Native Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow
• Sacagawea and her Sisters: Writing and Teaching about Native Women

Elisabeth I. Perry
Saint Louis University, Emerita
Elisabeth Perry is professor emerita of women's studies and history at Saint Louis University. An outstanding teacher and lecturer, she is also author of Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith (1987); The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women (1992); Women in Action: Rebels and Reformers, 1920-1980 (1995); We Have Come to Stay: American Women and Political Parties, 1880-1960 (1999); and The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: A Student Companion (2006).

Lecture Topics

• Why America Has Never Had a Woman President
  
• The Challenge of Feminist Biography
• The Politics of Coeducation in the Nineteenth Century
• Eleanor Roosevelt's Political Apprenticeship

Lewis Perry
Saint Louis University, Emeritus
Former editor of the Journal of American History, Lewis Perry is professor emeritus of history at Saint Louis University. He has previously taught at SUNY Buffalo, Indiana University, and Vanderbilt University, and his Intellectual Life in America (1989) is assigned in many classes. Author of many books and articles on antislavery, reform, and American culture, he is currently working on a book on civil disobedience in U.S. history.

Lecture Topics

• Civil Disobedience as an American Tradition
  
• The Antebellum Origins of Civil Disobedience
• Intellectual Life in a Democratic Culture
• "Wild, Unaccountable Things": Civil Disobedience in the Struggle for Woman Suffrage
• Prologue to the Civil Rights Movement: Interpreting Gandhi to Americans

Kimberley L. Phillips
College of William and Mary
Kimberley L. Phillips is dean for educational policy and Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of History at the College of William and Mary. Her publications include AlabamaNorth: African American Migrants and Working Class Activism (1999) and articles on African American music and religion, women’s cultural production, and American cultural politics. Her forthcoming work includes War! What is it Good For?: Black Culture and the U. S. Military; an edited collection of essays, Fight for the Nation: Blacks and the U.S. Military; and a biography of Jimi Hendrix.

Lecture Topics

• Twentieth-century African American Cultural Politics
  
• African Americans and the U.S. Military
• African American Workers
• Race, Gender, Class and U.S. Cultural Politics in the Twentieth Century
• Civil Rights

Christopher W. Phillips
University of Cincinnati
Christopher W. Phillips is professor of history at the University of Cincinnati. His research interests generally are in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction, more specifically, the American South, with particular interest in the border states. His books have focused upon slavery and freedom, emancipation, war, race, politics, and memory during and after the Civil War era. His current book project is tentatively entitled The Rivers Run Backward: The Civil War on the Middle Border and the Making of American Regionalism. Since 1999, he has also served as coeditor of Ohio Valley History, a peer-reviewed quarterly publication of regional history.

Lecture Topics

• "Not To Divide the North": Nationalism and Dissent in the Western Free States during the Civil War
  
• From Border States to Border South: Slavery, Civil War, and the Politics of Identity in the Border Slave States
• No Velvet Glove: Lincoln and the Border Slave States During the Civil War
• The Ten Year War: Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War in the Middle Western States
• The Roots of Quasi-Freedom: Slavery, Manumission, and African American Community in Early National Maryland

G. Kurt Piehler
University of Tennessee
G. Kurt Piehler is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is author of Remembering War the American Way (1995) and the World War II volume in the American Soldiers’ Lives Series (2007). He is coeditor of Major Problems in American Military History (1999) and consulting editor of the Oxford Companion to American Military History. As founding director of the Rutgers Oral History Archives of World War II (1994-1998), he conducted over 200 interviews with Second World War veterans. Currently, he is researching a new book, a religious history of the Great Depression and American participation in World War II.

Lecture Topics

• American War Memorials and Cemeteries: A Historical Perspective
  
• Oral History
• The American Response to Nazi Germany
• The American GI in War and Peace
• Atheists in Foxholes?: Religious Life in the American Army in World War II
  

Matthew Pinsker
Dickinson College
Matthew Pinsker holds the Brian Pohanka Chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College. He has published two books and numerous articles on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War era, including Lincoln's Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home (2003). He has served as a visiting fellow at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and leads annual K-12 teacher workshops on the Underground Railroad for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Lecture Topics

• Abraham Lincoln: Private Man, Public Leader
  
• Lincoln and War Powers: The Doctrine of Electoral Necessity
• Lincoln and Emancipation: New Evidence and Old Theories
• The Underground Railroad and the Coming of the Civil War
• The Other Lincoln-Douglass Debates

Dwight T. Pitcaithley
New Mexico State University
Dwight T. Pitcaithley is College Professor of History at New Mexico State University. He retired from the National Park Service in 2005 as Chief Historian, a position he held for ten years. He is coeditor of The Antiquities Act: A Century of American Archaeology, Historic Preservation, and Nature Conservation (2006) and has contributed chapters to Becoming Historians (2009), Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory (2006), Preserving Western History (2005), Public History and the Environment (2004), Myth, Memory, and the Making of the American Landscape (2001), and Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West (2001). In 2005, the Organization of American Historians awarded him its Distinguished Service Award.

Lecture Topics

• Does the National Park Service have a Future?
  
• Confronting the Causes of the Civil War in Public: The National Park Service and American Memory
• John Singleton Mosby was Right: Slavery and the Coming of the American Civil War
• Why Aren't We All Public Historians?

Lawrence N. Powell
Tulane University
Lawrence N. Powell teaches southern history, race relations, and Holocaust studies at Tulane University. His books include New Masters: Northern Planters during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1980, 1999) and Troubled Memory: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana (2000), which won the Lillian Smith Book Prize from the Southern Regional Council and the Kemper and Leila Williams Prize from the Louisiana Historical Association. He was vice-chair of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism (which he helped found).

Lecture Topics

• Katrina: The Storm that Won't End
  
• The Moral Force of Historical Memory: Or, How a Southern Historian's Political Activism Caused Him to Write About the Holocaust

Robert A. Pratt
University of Georgia
Robert A. Pratt is professor of history and department chair at the University of Georgia. He is author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia 1954-89 (1992)--named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States--and We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (2002).

Lecture Topics

• The Civil Rights Movement
  
• School Desegregation and the History of Brown v. Board of Education
• Multiculturalism
• Twentieth-Century Southern and African American History
• Race and Ethnicity

Clement Alexander Price
Rutgers University
Clement Alexander Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University. He is author of Freedom Not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey (1980) and numerous other scholarly works, and has received many awards for academic and community service, including New Jersey Professor of the Year from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in 1999. He is a member of the scholarly advisory committee to the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, and served as agency lead for the National Endowment for the Humanities on President Obama's transition team.

Lecture Topics

• The Modern Civil Rights Movement Reconsidered
  
• Race, Memory, and the Civic Sphere in American Life
• Newark, New Jersey and the Contested Memory of American Urban Life
• Public History as Civic Duty
• The History of Black History

Jack Rakove
Stanford University
Jack Rakove is W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1980. His writings focus on the revolutionary origins of American constitutionalism, the political thought and career of James Madison, and the role of history in constitutional adjudication and politics. He is author of four books including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1996), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and the editor of four others, including James Madison: Writings (1999) and The Unfinished Election of 2000 (2001).

Lecture Topics

• What Did the Constitution Originally Mean?
  
• Declaring Rights: A Constitutional Dilemma
• Thoughts on Reading Madison's Mind

Carol Reardon
Pennsylvania State University
Carol Reardon is professor of military history and scholar-in-residence of the Richards Civil War Era Center at the Pennsylvania State University. Her teaching and research center on various aspects of American military and naval history--especially the Civil War and Vietnam--and the way that memory shapes understanding of historical events. She has taught at West Point and other military schools, and has led many "staff rides" to Civil War battlefields. She is past president of the Society for Military History and author, most recently, of Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972 (2005).

Lecture Topics

• Pickett's Charge in History and Memory
  
• Gettysburg in History and Memory
• Civil War Battlefields as Open Air Classrooms for Soldiers and Civilians
• The Naval Air War in Vietnam in 1972: A Squadron's Perspectives

Marcus Rediker
University of Pittsburgh
Marcus Rediker is professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is author, most recently, of The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007), which won the George Washington Book Prize, the OAH Merle Curti Prize, and the AHA James A. Rawley Prize. His other books include Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (1987), which also won the Curti Award and the American Studies Association's John Hope Franklin Prize; Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, volume one (1989); with Peter Linebaugh, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic (2000), which won of the International Labor History Book Prize; and Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (2004).

Lecture Topics

• "The Floating Dungeon": A History of the Slave Ship
  
• The Real Pirates of the Caribbean
• Rethinking the Amistad Rebellion

William J. Reese
University of Wisconsin-Madison
William J. Reese is Carl F. Kaestle WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching interests focus on the history of American education, and he has written books on the history of progressive education and on the origins of the American high school. His most recent books include America’s Public Schools: From the "Common School" to No Child Left Behind (2005); History, Education, and the Schools (2007); and a coedited volume with John Rury entitled Rethinking the History of American Education (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Why Americans Love to Reform the Public Schools
  
• Youth Culture and the American High School
• School Reform and Contemporary American History

Susan M. Reverby
Wellesley College
Susan M. Reverby is Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and professor of women's studies at Wellesley College. An historian of American women, medicine, and nursing, she is editor of numerous volumes in these fields and author of the prizewinning Ordered to Care: The Dilemma of American Nursing (1987). Her current research focuses on the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study, run by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972. She is editor of Tuskegee's Truths (2000) and is completing a new book on stories of the study. She was a member of the Legacy Committee that successfully lobbied President Bill Clinton to offer a public apology to the surviving men and their heirs in 1997. She also served as the consumer representative on the FDA’s Obstetrical and Gynecological Devices Panel.

Lecture Topics

• Counter-Narratives: Fact and Fiction in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  
• Fictions of Caring: "Miss Evers"' Boys and the Real Nurse Rivers
• Tuskegee in the African American Imagination

Daniel K. Richter
University of Pennsylvania
Daniel K. Richter is the Richard S. Dunn Director of the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and Edmund J. and Louis W. Kahn Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching focus on colonial North America and on Native American history before 1800. He is author of Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America (2001) and The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization (1992). He is coeditor, with James H. Merrell, of Beyond the Covenant Chain: The Iroquois and Their Neighbors in Indian North America, 1600-1800 (1987) and, with William A. Pencak, of Friends and Enemies in Penn’s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania (2004).

Lecture Topics

• Native Americans and the Colonial Atlantic World
  
• William Penn and Native Americans, Revisted
• The Peopling and Repeopling of Colonial North America

Randy W. Roberts
Purdue University
Randy Roberts' major interest is the intersection of popular culture and political culture. He has studied personalities from sports, film, and television--such as John Wayne, Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, Roone Arledge, and Mike Tyson--who have transcended their particular fields and left a footprint on the political landscape. Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University; he was named 2006 U.S. Professor of the Year for the state of Indiana by Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He is coauthor of The Steelers Reader (2001), A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (2000), John Wayne: American (1995), and Winning is the Only Thing: Sports in America since 1945 (1989), among other books; and editor most recently of The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports (2005).

Lecture Topics

• John Wayne's America: Why He Still Rides Tall
  
• Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, and Muhammad Ali: The Meaning of the Heavyweight Championship
• Popular Culture Goes To War: John Wayne, Joe Louis, Superman, and American Culture During World War II
• The Roone Revolution: Roone Arledge and the Making of Televised Sports
• The Clinton Show: Notes on the Postmodern Celebrity
• Why Joe Louis Matters: Race, Masculinity, and Culture

Daniel T. Rodgers
Princeton University
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

Clara E. Rodriguez
Fordham University
Clara E. Rodríguez is professor of sociology at Fordham University and author of nine books including Heroes, Lovers, and Others: The Story of Latinos in Hollywood (2008), Changing Race: Latinos, The Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States (2000) and Latin Looks: Images of Latinas and Latinos in U.S. Media (1997). Winner of the American Sociological Association's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Research in the Field of Latina/o Studies, she was recently elected to the American Sociological Association’s Governing Council and was selected as one of the “100 Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business, October 2007. She has also been a consultant to various media projects, including the Children's Television Workshop and "Dora the Explorer."

Lecture Topics

• Latinos and the Media
  
• The History of Latinos in Hollywood Film (in Spanish and English)
• Race, Ethnicity and the History of the Census in the United States
• Counting Latinos in the U.S. Census: Latinos and “Some Other Race”
• “The Idea of Race” in Historical and Comparative Perspective
• Using Writing Assignments on Movies and TV Shows to Advance Students’ Understanding of Social Justice

David Roediger
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Currently Babcock Chair of History at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, David Roediger has written on U.S. movements for a shorter working day, on the history of radicalism, and on the racial identities of white workers. His books include, most recently, Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (2002) and Working Towards Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White (2005). He is coeditor of The Big Red Songbook (2007) and has also edited Covington Hall’s Labor Struggles in the Deep South, W.E.B. Du Bois’s John Brown, and Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998).

Lecture Topics

• Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History
  
• How White Supremacy Survived U.S. History

Paul C. Rosier
Villanova University
Paul C. Rosier is associate professor of history at Villanova University. He is author of Rebirth of the Blackfeet Nation, 1912-1954 (2001), Native American Issues (2003), and the forthcoming Homelands and Empires: Cold Wars and Indian Country in Twentieth-Century America, as well as coeditor of Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (2006). His current research examines Native American environmental activism after World War II.

Lecture Topics

• Native American Politics during the Cold War
  
• Native American Environmentalism in Post-World War II America
• Contemporary Native American Issues
• The Treaty in American Indian History
• Native American Patriotism in Twentieth-Century America

Joshua Rothman
University of Alabama
Joshua Rothman is associate professor of history at the University of Alabama, where he specializes in antebellum America and the history of race, slavery, and the South. He is the author of Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 (2003), and is currently working on an edited work about antebellum reform activities as well as a book about the expansion of slavery and the cotton kingdom to the Jacksonian-era southwest.

Lecture Topics

• Race, Slavery, and the Southern Family
  
• Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Is It True? Why Should We Care?
• A Speculator’s Paradise: Market Capitalism and the Expansion of the Slave South
• The Legend of John Murrell: Banditry and Slave Conspiracies on the Cotton Frontier

Andrew J. Rotter
Colgate University
Andrew J. Rotter is professor of history at Colgate University, where he teaches U.S. foreign relations and recent U.S. history. His research focus is U.S.-Asia relations during the Cold War; he is author, most recently, of Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (2008) and Comrades at Odds: Culture and Indo-U.S. Relations, 1947-1964 (2000). He is particularly interested in cultural approaches to international history, including the use of race, gender, religion, and class as categories of analysis, and he has explored the role of such matters as gesture, appearance, and odor in shaping diplomatic encounters.

Lecture Topics

• The Problem of Culture in U.S. Foreign Relations
  
• The World's Bomb: Hiroshima and its Global Impact
• The Vietnam War in Retrospect

E. Anthony Rotundo
Phillips Academy Andover
E. Anthony Rotundo is Alfred E. Stearns Instructor in History and Social Sciences at Phillips Academy Andover. His book, American Manhood: Transitions in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (1993), and related articles helped to create and define masculinity as a field of historical study. His research and writing in recent years have focused on manhood and masculinity in the late twentieth century, especially in relation to electoral politics and popular culture.

Lecture Topics

• The Politics of Toughness: Conservatism, Masculinity, and American Culture in the Late Twentieth Century
  
• Dreams and Realities: Manhood and Masculinity in Post-War America, 1945-1970

Vicki L. Ruiz
University of California, Irvine
An award-winning scholar and dean of the School of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine, Vicki Ruiz is author, editor, or coeditor of several books, including From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America (1997); with Ellen Carol DuBois, Unequal Sisters: An Inclusive Reader in U.S. Women's History (4th ed., 2008); and, with Virginia Sanchez Korrol, Latinas in the U.S.: A Historical Encyclopedia (2006). She is president of the American Studies Association; past president of OAH, of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association; and a former member of the National Humanities Council and the national council of the American Historical Association.

Lecture Topics

• Big Dreams, Rural Schools: Mexican Americans and Public Education, 1870-1950
  
• "La Nueva Chicana": Women in the Chicano Movement
• Comadres, Cowgirls, and Curanderas: Spanish/Mexican Women in the Southwest 1540-1900
• Nuestra América: Latino History As U.S. History

Leila J. Rupp
University of California, Santa Barbara
Leila J. Rupp is professor of women’s studies and associate dean of social sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Sexuality in America (1999) and Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement (1997), and coauthor of Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret (2003) and Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women’s Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (1987). Also coeditor of Feminist Frontiers (7th ed., 2006), she is currently writing a global history of love between women.

Lecture Topics

• Sapphistries: A History of Love Between Women
  
• The Beauty of Drag Queens
• Worlds of Women: The Making of an International Women’s Movement

Edmund Russell
University of Virginia
Edmund Russell is associate professor in the departments of history and science, technology, and society at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching have focused on environmental history, the history of technology, and the history of science. He is author of War and Nature: Fighting Humans and Insects from World War I to Silent Spring (2001), which won the Edelstein Prize, and "Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field" (2003), which won the Leopold-Hidy Prize. He has received awards from his university and the state for his teaching.

Lecture Topics

• War and Nature: Fighting People and Insects with Chemicals from World War I to Silent Spring
  
• Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field
• Bulldog Nation: How Fierce Dogs and English Society Co-Evolved in Modern England

Robert W. Rydell
Montana State University
Robert W. Rydell is professor of history and director of the Montana Humanities Institute at Montana State University. He has written or cowritten several books that examine the power of the world's fairs to define the modern world, especially to lend legitimacy to America's growing imperial ambitions after the Civil War. International exhibitions reveal intersections between the cultural politics of race, class, and gender; provide fascinating lenses for examining cultural diplomacy; and afford important insights into the complexities of globalization.

Lecture Topics

• Imperial Cities: World's Fairs and the Cultural Reconstruction of the United States, 1876-1904
  
• The World of Fairs, 1851-2010
• Buffalo Bill, the American West, and America's Image in the World
• "Contend, Contend, Contend": African Americans and America's White Cities
• America by Design: America's Depression-Era World's Fairs

Neal Salisbury
Smith College, Emeritus
Neal Salisbury is professor emeritus of history at Smith College. His scholarly interests center on Native Americans and colonial North America. His publications include Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643 (1982) and an edition of Mary Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (1997). He is coeditor, with Philip Deloria, of A Companion to American Indian History (2002). Most recently he has coauthored The People: A History of Native America (2006) and The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (6th ed., 2008).

Lecture Topics

• Homelands Transformed: Natives, Colonizers, and the Making of New England, 1600-1677
  
• Contextualizing Captivity: Mary Rowlandson and King Philip's War
• Perspectives on an "Indian War": King Philip's War in Southern New England

Nick Salvatore
Cornell University
Nick Salvatore is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial Relations and professor of American studies at Cornell University. He is author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982), which received the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize, and We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (1996), which received the New England History Association’s Outstanding Book Prize. His most recent book is Singing in a Strange Land: C.L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America (2003). Franklin (1915-1984) was an influential preacher, committed social activist, and longtime pastor of Detroit’s New Bethel Baptist Church. For more information, see http://www.nicksalvatore.com.

Lecture Topics

• Singing In A Strange Land: C. L. Franklin's Ministry from Mississippi to Detroit, 1915-1984
  
• The Long Exception: Rethinking the Place of the New Deal in American History
• Dissenting Patriots: Protest and Democracy in America After 1945

George J. Sanchez
University of Southern California
George J. Sanchez is associate professor of history and director of the program in American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Past president of the American Studies Association, he is author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993) and coeditor of the series, “American Crossroads: New Works in Ethnic Studies.” He studies both historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration, and is currently researching the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles in the twentieth century.

Lecture Topics

• Natives and Aliens: Drawing Boundaries of Race and Nation in Urban America
  
• Confronting the Contradictions: Diversity and Graduate Education in the Twenty-First Century
• Challenging Student Identities: Race and Class in the Undergraduate Classroom
• The Agony of Whiteness: How Jews Moved Out of the Eastside and What Difference It Makes for Race in Los Angeles
• The Huntington Challenge: Latino History, American Culture, and the Future of Diversity in the United States

Martha A. Sandweiss
Princeton University
Martha A. Sandweiss began her career as a curator of photographs, later became the director of a college art museum, and now, as professor of history at Princeton University, teaches a broad array of classes in American studies, visual culture, public history, and the history of the American West. She has a deep interest in how historians can use visual images as primary sources to answer a broad range of questions about the past and to convey ideas that cannot be learned by other means. In recent years, she has been exploring an entirely different topic: how one prominent American explorer, geologist, and writer lived a secret double life in late nineteenth-century New York. This exploration of race, class, and identity in America’s largest city has been published in Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (2009).

Lecture Topics

• Print the Legend: Photography and the American West
  
• Passing Strange: The Secret Life of Clarence King
• Using Pictures as Historical Documents (a workshop)

Todd L. Savitt
East Carolina University
Todd L. Savitt is an historian of medicine in the department of medical humanities, East Carolina University School of Medicine. His primary research interests are African American medical history and medical history of the American South and West. He has written on slave health, sickle cell anemia, sudden infant death syndrome, use of African Americans for medical experimentation, the entry of black physicians into the American medical profession, and early African American medical schools and medical journals.

Lecture Topics

• Abortion in the Old West: The Trials of Dr. Edwin S. Kellogg of Helena, Montana
  
• Entering a White Profession: Black Physicians in the New South, 1880-1920
• Race, Medicine, Scientific Authorship, and the Discovery of Sickle Cell Anemia in 1910-1911
• Educating Black Physicians: The Founding of Medical Schools for African Americans in Nineteenth-Century America

Virginia Scharff
University of New Mexico
Virginia Scharff, professor of history and director of the Center for the Southwest at the University of New Mexico, specializes in the histories of women and of the American West. Her publications include Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor Age (1991); Present Tense: The United States Since 1945 (1996); Coming of Age: America in the Twentieth Century (1998), Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West (2003), and the forthcoming The Women Jefferson Loved. She is editor of Seeing Nature Through Gender (2003). Scharff also writes mystery novels under the nom de plume of Virginia Swift, including Brown-Eyed Girl (2000), Bad Company (2002), Bye, Bye, Love (2004) and Hello, Stranger (2006).

Lecture Topics

• Sacagawea, Lewis and Clark, and the West
  
• Why Women's Movements Matter
• Gender and Environmental History
• Women and the West
• The Women Jefferson Loved

Ellen Schrecker
Yeshiva University
Ellen Schrecker is professor of history at Yeshiva University who has written extensively about the Cold War red scare. Among her books are No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1986), The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (1994), and Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998). Her most recent volume is an edited collection of essays, Cold War Triumphalism: Exposing the Misuse of History after the Fall of Communism (2004). Former editor of the AAUP's magazine, Academe, she is currently working on a general study of political repression in the United States and a book about academic freedom today.

Lecture Topics

• Political Repression in America from the Puritans to the Patriot Act
  
• McCarthyism in America: Political Repression during the Early Cold War
• Academic Freedom from the Age of McCarthyism to the Present

Bruce J. Schulman
Boston University
Bruce J. Schulman is William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University. He is author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (1994); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (2001); and coeditor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (2007), and The Constitution and Public Policy (2008). A frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, Schulman has appeared as an expert commentator on numerous television and radio programs. He is currently at work on a volume of the Oxford History of the United States, covering the years 1896-1929.

Lecture Topics

• Thunder on the Right: The Rise of Conservatism in American Politics
  
  
• When Houdini Met Roosevelt: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Modern America, 1896-1929
• White House Warriors: The Wartime Presidency from William McKinley to George W. Bush
• Electing America: Six Campaigns That Reshaped the Modern United States
• Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude: The 1970s' Shift in American Culture and Politics

Constance B. Schulz
University of South Carolina, Emerita
Distinguished Professor Emerita Constance Schulz was director or codirector of the award-winning public history program at the University of South Carolina for more than twenty years. She is currently directing and serving as senior editor for an NEH-funded project, The Digital Documentary Edition of the Writings of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. She has written on public history education, served as a consultant for colleges and universities, and studied how museum, archival, and historic preservation activities are carried out in other nations while a Fulbright lecturer in England and Italy. Her work as a scholar and an archival educator, beginning with the Maryland, South Carolina, and American History Slide Collections, has focused on the importance of archivists' preservation and historians' use of visual images, particularly photographs, for understanding the past.

Lecture Topics

• Public History in the University: Possibilities, Practicalities, and Pitfalls
  
• American Documentary Photography: An Historical Overview and Assessment (with slides)
• Jane Randolph Jefferson: An Un-Appreciated Mother
• "I'd Rather Shoot with a Camera than a Gun": Women Photographers of World War II
• A Revolutionary-Era Mother and Daughter: Eliza Pinckney and Harriott Horry, Southern Plantation Mistresses, 1739-1830

Robert D. Schulzinger
University of Colorado, Boulder
Robert D. Schulzinger is College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Distinction of History and International Affairs at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has been a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation and currently serves on the Central Intelligence Agency's Historical Review Panel. He is author or coauthor of twelve books, including Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy (1989), A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (1997), A Time for Peace: The Legacy of the Vietnam War (2006), U.S. Diplomacy since 1900 (6th ed., 2008), and Present Tense: The United States since 1945 (2004). He is also editor-in-chief of Diplomatic History: The Journal of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.

Lecture Topics

• Is Iraq Another Vietnam?
  
• Government Secrecy from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
• The Living Legacy of the Vietnam War
• Stock Market Booms and Busts from the 1920s to the 1990s

Thomas Alan Schwartz
Vanderbilt University
Thomas Alan Schwartz is professor of history at Vanderbilt University. He has written extensively on America’s relations with Europe, especially Germany, and his research concerns alliance politics and the modern American presidency. He teaches courses dealing with the history of U.S. foreign relations, the Vietnam War, and the Middle East. He is currently writing two books: a biography of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a short history of the Cold War.

Lecture Topics

• Henry Kissinger, Vietnam, and Iraq: The Problem of Realism in American Foreign Policy
  
• The Water's Edge: Domestic Politics and American Foreign Policy Reconsidered
• Troubles in the Family: U.S.-European Disputes in Historical Perspective
• The Cold War as History
• Europe’s First Texan: Lyndon Johnson’s Foreign Policy Reconsidered
• President Obama's World: The Challenge of a New Foreign Policy

Donald Schwartz
California State University, Long Beach
Donald Schwartz has been a member of the history department at California State University Long Beach since 1987. His research interests include the experience of Holocaust survivors, the role of Quakers in Holocaust rescue attempts, and the teaching of the Holocaust in grades K-12. He is deeply involved with improving the teaching of American history through his work with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and with Teaching American History projects.

Lecture Topics

• America and the Holocaust
  
• Progressivism and the American Eugenics Movement
• The U.S. and Europe: Examining the Dynamics of a Love-Hate Relationship
• The 1950s: Happy Days or Misplaced Nostalgia?
• Teaching the Holocaust in K-12 Classrooms

Anne Firor Scott
Duke University, Emerita
W.K. Boyd Professor Emerita at Duke University, Anne Scott is author of The Southern Lady (1970, 1995), One Half the People (with Andrew M. Scott), Making the Invisible Woman Visible (1984), Natural Allies: Women's Associations in American History (1992), Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women (1993), and most recently, Pauli Murray and Caroline Ware: Forty Years of Letters in Black and White (2006). A former president of OAH, she received the OAH Distinguished Service Award in 2002 and the American Historical Association's Scholarly Achievement Award in 2008.

Lecture Topics

• Benjamin Franklin's Sister
  
• Reading Other People's Mail

Jon Sensbach
University of Florida
Jon Sensbach is professor of history at the University of Florida. In his research, he has sought to understand how Christianity shaped relations between Europeans and enslaved Africans, and how people of African descent created lasting religious cultures in the Americas. His most recent book, Rebecca’s Revival (2005), explores the life of an eighteenth-century black female evangelist in the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa, and his current work investigates the conjunction of Native American, European, and African religions in the early South before the “Bible Belt.”

Lecture Topics

• Religion and New World Colonization
  
• The Sacred South
• Slavery and Religion
• Religion and the Founders
• Religions of the African Diaspora

Carole Shammas
University of Southern California
Carole Shammas holds the John R. Hubbard Chair in History at the University of Southern California and specializes in the socioeconomic history of Britain and English-speaking North America. In articles and books on inheritance, consumption, and household government, she has explored how households and the behavior of their members affect the economy and politics. Most recently, she has embarked on a study of how demography and the physical environment influenced the built environment of early America.

Lecture Topics

• America, the Atlantic, and Global Consumer Demand, 1500-1800
  
• Household Government in America
• Labor Force Participation in Early America
• Permanence and the Housing Stock of the United States
• The Future of Quantitative History

Rebecca Sharpless
Texas Christian University
Rebecca Sharpless is assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University, where she teaches and researches U.S. women’s history, particularly in the South. Former director of Baylor University's Institute for Oral History, she is author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 (1999) and the forthcoming Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: African Americans in the South, 1865-1960. With Melissa Walker, she also coedited Work, Family, and Faith: Rural Southern Women in the Twentieth Century.

Lecture Topics

• The Lady and the Field Hand: Southern Women and Work
  
• Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: African American Domestic Workers in the South
• A Shared Repast: Southern Food and Southern History
• Everybody’s Great-Grandmother: Southern Farm Women

Stephanie J. Shaw
The Ohio State University
Stephanie J. Shaw is associate professor of history at The Ohio State University where she has also taught in the department of black studies and the Center for Women’s Studies. She is author of What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers during the Jim Crow Era (1996) as well as a contributor to The Blackwell Companion to the American South (2002) and contributing editor of the Harvard Guide to African-American History (2001). She was fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 2002-2003. Her article, "Using the WPA Ex-Slave Narratives to Study the Impact of the Great Depression," published in the Journal of Southern History in August 2003, won the Southern Historical Association's Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award for the best article.

Lecture Topics

• Female Slave Resistance in the Antebellum South
  
• Reading The Souls of Black Folk in the Twenty-First Century
• Slave Labor and Cotton Production in Antebellum Mississippi

Aaron Sheehan-Dean
University of North Florida
Aaron Sheehan-Dean is associate professor of history at the University of North Florida, where he teaches courses on nineteenth-century U.S. and southern history. He is author of Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia (2007) and the Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War (2008) and editor of The View from the Ground: Experiences of Civil War Soldiers (2007) and Struggle for a Vast Future: The American Civil War (2006). His current project explores the legacy of the Civil War in terms of the debates over definitions of liberty, struggles to shape American economic and industrial policy, and the development of the American West.

Lecture Topics

• Confederate Nationalism and the End of the Civil War
  
• A Rich Man's Fight and a Poor Man's War?: Rethinking the Social Experience of the Civil War
• After the Battle: The Consequences of the U.S. Civil War
• Using Maps to Teach the Civil War

Martin J. Sherwin
George Mason University
Martin J. Sherwin is University Professor of History at George Mason University. His American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005), written with Kai Bird, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Also author of the classic A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance (1976), he is currently writing a book entitled Gambling With Armageddon: The Military, the Hawks and the Long Straight Road to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962. Sherwin has been twice recognized as "Professor of the Year, Silver Medal" by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, appointed Honorable UNESCO Professor of Humanities at Mendeleyev University in Moscow, and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has served as adviser on many documentary films, including the PBS American Experience documentary, "The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer."

Lecture Topics

• Oppenheimer's Shadow: His Nuclear World and Ours
  

Bryant Simon
Temple University
Bryant Simon, professor of history at Temple University, is author of A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948 (1998), Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America (2004), and Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (2009); and coeditor of Jumpin' Jim Crow': Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights (2000).

Lecture Topics

• Learning from Starbucks
  
• Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America
• Elvis, Little Richard, and Cultural Dissent in the 1950s

Manisha Sinha
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Manisha Sinha is associate professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (2000) and coeditor of the the two-volume African American Mosaic: A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to the Twenty-First Century (2004) and Contested Democracy: Race, Freedom, and Power in American History (2007). At present, she is working on a book on African Americans and the movement to abolish slavery. She has written and lectured widely on southern and African American history, and has also written several articles on the historic nature of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and inauguration in The Huffington Post.

Lecture Topics

• Secession as Counterrevolution: Proslavery Thought and the Coming of the Civil War
  
• Rethinking American Exceptionalism in the History of the African Slave Trade
• Remembering Lincoln in the Age of Obama
• Allies for Emancipation?: Lincoln and Black Abolitionists

Suzanne M. Sinke
Florida State University
Suzanne M. Sinke is associate professor of history at Florida State University. She is author of Dutch Immigrant Women in the U.S., 1880-1920 (2002), and coeditor of A Century of European Migrations (1991) and Letters Across Borders (2006) as well as numerous articles on migration and gender. She is currently writing a book on the relationship of marriage to international migration in the U.S. context, from "bride ships" to matchmaking web sites. Her teaching blends comparisons of gender and migration among different countries.

Lecture Topics

• Crossing Borders: Globalizing U.S. History through Migration
  
• Gendered Migration: Twentieth-Century Policy and Practice
• Marriage through the Mail: Correspondence Marriage Across Borders
• Love, Sex, Bureaucracy: The U.S. Military and Marriage to Foreigners

Merritt Roe Smith
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Merritt Roe Smith is Leverett and William Howell Cutten Professor of the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1978. He is currently working on a book about technology during the Civil War era. He is author of Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology (1977), winner of the OAH Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the History of Science Society's Pfizer Award; editor or coeditor of Military Enterprise and Technological Change (1985), Does Technology Drive History? (1994), and Major Problems in the History of American Technology (1998); and, most recently, coauthor of Inventing America: A History of the United States (2002). Smith is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past president of the Society for the History of Technology from which he received the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, the society’s highest honor.

Lecture Topics

• War, Technology, and American Industrialization, 1815-1890
  
• The Industrial Revolution in America: A Reconsideration of its Origins and Implications
• Why the North Won: The Civil War Considered from a Technological Perspective
• Technological Revolutions in American History: From Steampower to the Internet
• The War That Defined Modern America: The Civil War, Industrialization, and Technological Change, 1861-1886
• Does Technology Drive History?

Ryan K. Smith
Virginia Commonwealth University
Ryan K. Smith teaches American history at Virginia Commonwealth University, with interests in religion, material culture, and public history. His book, Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century (2006) was a "Nota Bene" selection in the Chronicle of Higher Education. In this work, he reveals the surprising artistic exchange that took place beneath the surface of Protestant/Catholic hostilities in the early American republic, shedding new light on common Christian symbols.

Lecture Topics

• The Cross: The Forgotten History Behind a Contested Christian Symbol in Nineteenth-Century America
  
• New Catholic Churches in America and Their Protestant Audiences, 1776-1860
• The Fountain of Youth: History of a Wayward American Shrine

Paul R. Spickard
University of California, Santa Barbara
Paul Spickard is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his books are, most recently, Almost All Aliens: Immigration, Race and Colonialism in American History and Identity (2007) and Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans (2007). He is also author of Race and Nation: Ethnic Systems in the Modern World (2005); Racial Thinking in the United States (2004); and Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America (2003).

Lecture Topics

• U.S. Immigration Policy in the Twenty-first Century
  
• Beyond the Ellis Island Myth: Rethinking Immigration History
• December 7 and September 11: Racializing the Other in America's Wars at Home
• The Multiracial Movement and Racial Identity in the United States
• The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism: DNA Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement
• Is Lighter Better? Skin-Tone Discrimination among Asian Americans

Marjorie J. Spruill
University of South Carolina
Marjorie J. Spruill specializes in U.S. women’s and gender history and the history of the American South. Her best-known works include New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States (1993) and an edited volume, One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement (1995) that accompanied the PBS film “One Woman, One Vote.” Spruill is especially interested in the intersection of ideas about gender and politics. She is currently exploring the rise of the modern women's movement, the politicization of social conservatives, and the role of gender issues in the polarization of American political culture in the late 1970s.

Lecture Topics

• Women's Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Political Culture (with images)
  
• Votes for Women!: The American Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920 (with images)
• The Southern Story: The Woman Suffrage Movement in the Inhospitable South (with images)
• Race, Reform, and Reaction: Southern Suffragists, the NAWSA, and the "Southern Strategy" in Context (with images)
• Divided Legacy: The Civil War, Tradition, and "the Woman Question," 1865-1920

Christine Stansell
University of Chicago
Christine Stansell is professor of U.S. history at the University of Chicago. She has long written about women's history, feminism, sexuality, and cities. Her books are City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (1986), the anthology Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (1984), American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (2000), and the forthcoming Feminism Promised: A History. Her review essays about American history and literature appear regularly in The New Republic.

Lecture Topics

• Democracy and American Feminism
  
• Women and Political Power

Brenda E. Stevenson
University of California, Los Angeles
Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her areas of research and publication include African American history centered on slave women and family during the colonial and antebellum eras; she has also written and lectured widely on the southern white family (planters and yeomen), the free black family in the southern and northern United States, and the contemporary African American family, particularly in the urban setting. Her books include Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996) and The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke (1988). She currently is completing a book on slave women in the southern colonial and antebellum United States and another book on multiethnic female relations in contemporary American society.

Lecture Topics

• The Slave Female World of Sally Hemings
  
• Slave Women and Religion in the Antebellum South
• Interracial Sex and Slave Women's Labor in the Old South
• Images of Diverse Womanhood in Late Twentieth- Century Urban America: The Case of Latasha Harlins, Soon Ja Du, and Joyce Karlin
• Creating an Elite Black Female Intelligentsia: The Case of the Forten Women

James Brewer Stewart
Macalester College
For the past four decades, James Brewer Stewart has studied the pre-Civil War abolitionist movement. He has published biographies of four very well-known enemies of slavery--Joshua R. Giddings, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Hosea Easton--books including Abolitionist Politics and the Coming of the Civil War (2008), and a large number of articles and essays. His Sisterhood and Slavery: Transatlantic Antislavery and Women’s Rights, coedited with Kathryn Kish Sklar, is forthcoming. In these writings, as in his teaching, his foremost goal is to address historical problems of racial injustice in ways that faithfully portray the past and speak to the present.

Lecture Topics

• Antebellum Abolitionism and Contemporary Evangelical Conservatism
  
• Reconstructing Races: Abolitionists and Native Americans before 1861
• Historical Memory, Human Trafficking, and the Making of a New Abolitionist Movement

Michael B. Stoff
University of Texas at Austin
An historian of the modern United States, Michael B. Stoff is director of the nationally acclaimed Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas. He is author of Oil, War, and American Security (1980) and coauthor of Nation of Nations: A Narrative History of the American Republic (6th ed., 2008) as well as high school and middle school textbooks. Series coeditor of Oxford New Narratives in American History, he is also coeditor of The Manhattan Project: A Documentary Introduction to the Atomic Age (1991) and is currently working on a book on the bombing of Nagasaki. He has been honored many times for his teaching, most recently with election to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Lecture Topics

• Presidential Leadership in Modern America
  
• Public Education In America: Where We Have Been and Where We Should Go
• The Wizard of Oz: A Parable of Populism
• The Bombing of Nagasaki in History and Memory
• Narrative History: Putting the Story Back into History

Cynthia Stout
National Council for History Education
Cynthia Stout spent thirty years with the Jeffco Public Schools in Golden, Colorado, primarily teaching history and social studies at the secondary level. She also wrote curriculum and assessments and worked in professional development for K-12 teachers during her tenure there. Currently she is executive director of the National Council for History Education, an organization dedicated to promoting the teaching of history K-12. Her scholarly research interests center around the effects of tuberculosis on people and communities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Lecture Topics

• Tuberculosis and the Development of Colorado
  
• Teaching Students to Think Historically
• Best Practices in Teaching History at the Secondary Level
• Assessment and Evaluation in the History Classroom

Linda L. Sturtz
Beloit College
Linda L. Sturtz is Corlis Professor and chair of the history department at Beloit College where she teaches early American history and women's history. She is currently researching women and gender in pre-emancipation Jamaica. Her first book, "Within Her Power": Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia (2002), discusses women's economic activities in both local and trans-Atlantic settings while considering the legal actions propertied women took to protect the interests of themselves and their families.

Lecture Topics

• "None so Fine as the Garnet Ladies": African-Jamaican Women's Festive Culture in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
  
• The Life and Letters of Mary Rose, an Eighteenth-Century "White" African Jamaican?
• "The Ghost Family": Women, Law, and Family Property in Colonial Virginia
• "Cash I Make Use of; Cloth I Have Wove": Weaving Colonial Virginia Women's Economic History

Thomas J. Sugrue
University of Pennsylvania
Thomas J. Sugrue is Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (2008). His first book, The Origins of the Urban Crisis (1996), won the Bancroft Prize and awards for best book in North American urban history, labor history, and social science history. He is coeditor of The New Suburban History (2006), with Kevin Kruse, and W.E.B. DuBois, Race, and the City: The Philadelphia Negro and its Legacy (1998), with Michael B. Katz. He is author of the forthcoming The End of Race?: Barack Obama as History, and is writing a history of twentieth-century America.

Lecture Topics

• Race and Rust: The Transformation of the Postwar American City
  
• The End of Race? Barack Obama as History
• Beyond Apocalypse: Rethinking America in the 1960s
• Jim Crow's Last Stand: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Suburban North
• Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten History of Civil Rights in the North

Patricia Sullivan
University of South Carolina
Patricia Sullivan's interests focus on African American history, race relations, and civil rights struggles in twentieth-century America. The publication of her most recent book, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement (2009), coincides with the NAACP's centennial. Her other books include Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years (2003)--the letters of a white southerner who played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement--and Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (1996). Since 1995, she has codirected an ongoing series of NEH Summer Institutes at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on "Teaching the History of the Civil Rights Movement."

Lecture Topics

• The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
  
• Kathryn M. Johnson and May C. Nerney: Civil Rights Activism in the Progressive Era
• "On the Threshold of Victory": Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle for Civil Rights

Jeremi Suri
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jeremi Suri is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and winner of the university's Class of 1955 Distinguished Teaching Award and Dorothy and Hsin-Nung Yao Teaching Award. In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the humanities and sciences. He is author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century (2007), The Global Revolutions of 1968 (2007), and Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente (2003). His research emphasizes the interconnections between grassroots politics and elite policy-making. In his teaching and writing, he seeks to internationalize understanding of American history by focusing on the foreign "others" who have contributed to local and national definitions of identity in the United States. He also examines how American citizens--from ordinary men and women through distinguished politicians and businesspeople--have influenced the world outside the United States.

Lecture Topics

• Henry Kissinger and the American Century
  
• How America Has Changed the World
• The United States and the Middle East since the Second World War
• Ideas and Traditions in American Foreign Policy
• Power and Protest in the 1960s
• Jews and Society in a Post-Holocaust World
  

David Thelen
Indiana University
David Thelen is Distinguished Professor of History at Indiana University, where he had taught since 1985. He served as editor of the Journal of American History from 1985 to 1999.

Lecture Topics

• Coming to Terms with Evil in the Past
  
• How Americans Understand and Use the Past
• Individuals, Not Nation States: Rethinking History in a Global Age
• Reliving the Past and Rethinking History: From South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to U.S. Army Staff Rides and Living History

Athan Theoharis
Marquette University, Emeritus
Athan Theoharis is emeritus professor of history at Marquette University, specializing in federal surveillance policy and, more specifically, the history of the FBI in the post-1932 years. He has written extensively on issues of civil liberties, federal surveillance policy and authority, and secrecy in government, affecting historical research and national politics and institutions. His most recent books include The Quest for Absolute Security (2007), The FBI and American Democracy: A Brief Critical History (2004), and Chasing Spies (2002), which explores how FBI counterintelligence failures led its officials to promote and sustain McCarthyite politics.

Lecture Topics

• FBI Intelligence Investigations Pre- and Post-9/11
  
• Anticipating Espionage, Anticipating Terrorism: The Mindless Quest for Absolute Security
• The Politics of McCarthyism and the Role of the FBI
• A Culture of Secrecy: The Expansion and Politics of the U.S. Intelligence Agencies

William G. Thomas
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
William G. Thomas is John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A former Lincoln Prize Laureate, he served as director and cofounder of the Virginia Center for Digital History and associate professor of history at the University of Virginia from 1997-2005. His digital research initiatives have included The Valley of the Shadow, Race and Place: African American Community in the Jim Crow South, Television News of the Civil Rights Era, and The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia and the Railroad. He is author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South (1999) and coauthor of The Civil War on the Web (2000). He is also coauthor, with Edward L. Ayers, of "The Differences Slavery Made" published in 2003 as one of first digital articles of the American Historical Review. He is currently writing a social history of the railroads in the American Civil War era.

Lecture Topics

• The Civil War, the Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
  
• 1864: Conquering the Geography of the South
• What is Digital History?
• Teaching with Technology: From the Survey to the Seminar

Barbara L. Tischler
Horace Mann School
Barbara L. Tischler is director of curriculum and professional development at the Horace Mann School in New York City. She is author of numerous articles on American culture, the 1960s, and aspects of the anti-Vietnam War movement, along with An American Music (1986) and Sights on the Sixties (1992). She teaches U.S. history and government at Horace Mann School as well as courses on the U.S. Constitution and U.S. history at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Lecture Topics

• Beat Prose and the Journey Home: Jack Kerouac's Struggle with the Road
  
• "Born on the Fourth of July": Musical Celebrations of America's Independence
• Women in the Antiwar Movement of the 1960s
• "Singing Well and Shooting Straight": Music in America's Twentieth-Century Wars
• The G.I. Antiwar Movement in Vietnam
• Music in the Civil Rights Movement

Robert Brent Toplin
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Robert Brent Toplin is author of several books on film including Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion (2006), Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11": How One Film Divided a Nation (2006), Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood (2002), Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy (2000), and History By Hollywood: The Use and Abuse of the American Past (1996). He has edited film reviews for the Journal of American History as well as the "Masters of the Movies" series in the AHA's Perspectives on History. He has made numerous appearances as a commentator on film for the History Channel, C-SPAN, and the Turner Classic Movies Channel, and he has served as a principal creator of historical dramas that appeared nationally on PBS Television and the Disney Channel.

Lecture Topics

• Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11": How One Film Divided a Nation
  
• Reel History: In Defense of Hollywood
• The Strange Course of Liberalism and Conservatism in America since 1960
• Confronting Economic Problems Today on the Basis of Lessons from the Crash of 1929 and the Depression of the 1930s

Gil Troy
McGill University
Gil Troy is professor of history at McGill University, having taught there since 1990. He is author of Hillary Rodham Clinton: Polarizing First Lady (2006), Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (2005), Mr. and Mrs. President: From the Trumans to the Clintons (1997), and See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate (1991). His next book is Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents.

Lecture Topics

• Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents
  
• Hillary Rodham Clinton: Centrist at Heart
• Ronald Reagan and the Historians: Why Are We Doing Such a Bad Job?
• Snapshot: The 2008 Campaign in Historical Perspective

Mark Tushnet
Harvard University
Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, a position he assumed in 2006 after teaching at Georgetown University Law Center for twenty-five years. He is coauthor of four casebooks, including the most widely used casebook on constitutional law; author of twelve books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall; and editor of four others. He is former president of the Association of American Law Schools and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lecture Topics

• The Supreme Court Since 1990--and Beyond
  
• The Warren Court in Historical and Political Perspective
• Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP's Litigation Campaign, 1925-1961
• The Supreme Court in the 1930s

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Harvard University
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is 300th Anniversary University Professor and director of the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University and president of the American Historical Association. She is author of many articles and books on early American history, including A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (1990), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Her latest book is Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History (2007).

Lecture Topics

• Well-behaved Women Seldom Make History
  
• "A Quilt Unlike Any Other": Rediscovering the Work of Harriett Powers

Lara Vapnek
St. John's University
Lara Vapnek specializes in the history of gender and labor in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. Her forthcoming book, Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 (2009), examines wage-earning women's efforts to assert new, independent identities as workers and as citizens. Vapnek is currently investigating educated women's use of science to claim social authority and promote full human development. She teaches history at St. John's University, in Queens, New York.

Lecture Topics

• "City Slave Girls": Gender and the Labor Question in the Gilded-Age United States
  
• Solving the Servant Problem: Domestic Service and Labor Reform during the Progressive Era
• Workers, Reformers, and the Contested Meanings of Protection for Wage-Earning Women
• Mary Putnam Jacobi and Professional Women's Quest for Independence

Elizabeth R. Varon
Temple University
Elizabeth R. Varon is professor of history at Temple University. She is author of We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998) and Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (2003). The latter book - which won awards from the Virginia Historical Society; the James River Writers Festival and the Library of Virginia; and the Southern Regional Council - reflects Varon's ongoing commitment to integrating social history with political and military history. Her most recent book is Disunion! The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (2008), the first volume of the Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. The book explores how Americans, as far back as the earliest days of the Republic, agonized and strategized over disunion.

Lecture Topics

• The Method in Her Madness: Recovering the True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, a Union Agent in Confederate Richmond
  
• The Slaveholders' Dilemma: Disunion Rhetoric and the Coming of the Civil War
• Imagining a Winnable War: Abraham Lincoln and the Rhetoric of Disunion

Penny M. Von Eschen
University of Michigan
Penny M. Von Eschen is professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. She is author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (2004) and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (1997), winner of the Stuart L. Bernath Prize of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, among others. She is coeditor of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (2007) and American Studies: An Anthology (2008), and is currently working on a transnational history of Cold War nostalgia.

Lecture Topics

• Cold War Nostalgia: From “Stalin World Theme Park”, Lithuania, to the International Spy Museum, Washington, D.C.
  
• Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War: The U.S. State Department Jazz Tours
• Duke Ellington Plays Baghdad: Rethinking Power after 1945

Mike Wallace
Gotham Center for New York City History and John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Mike Wallace is Distinguished Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is author, most recently, of A New Deal for New York (2002) and coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (2000). He is also director of the Gotham Center for New York City History at the CUNY Graduate School http://www.gothamcenter.org. He is now working on the second volume of Gotham which will carry the story through the twentieth century. Founder, copublisher, and coeditor of the Radical History Review, Wallace has also served as consultant for Ric Burns's documentary on New York.

Lecture Topics

• History of New York City
  
• The Future of New York City

Peter Wallenstein
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Peter Wallenstein is professor of history at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he has taught since 1983. His research in U.S. (especially southern) history emphasizes racial identity, interracial marriage, and higher education. His books include Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History (2002), Cradle of America: Four Centuries of Virginia History (2007), and, most recently, an edited collection of essays, Higher Education and the Civil Rights Movement: White Supremacy, Black Southerners, and College Campuses (2008).

Lecture Topics

• Did Homer Plessy Die a White Man?
  
• Mr. and Mrs. Loving
• Cradle of America: Vignettes from Four Centuries of Virginia History, 1607-2007
• From Student Strike to School Closing: Prince Edward County and Brown v. Board, 1951-1959
• Race and Power in the American Past, from the American Revolution to the Civil Rights Movement
• Virginia Union University and the Richmond Sit-Ins of February 1960

Brian Ward
University of Manchester
Brian Ward teaches southern, African American, and cultural history at the University of Manchester. His publications include, most recently, Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South (2004), which was selected by the American Library Association as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book and won the best history book award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (1998), which won the OAH James A. Rawley Prize and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, among others. He is currently working on a book about the connections among racial, religious, class, gender and regional identities as revealed in the popular musics of Britain and the American South.

Lecture Topics

• Bigger than Elvis and More Popular Than Jesus: The Beatles and the American South
  
• Radio and the Southern Civil Rights Movement
• Florence Mills in Interwar Britain: A Tale of the Theater, the South, and the Black Atlantic
• Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, and the Long 1960s

Susan Ware
Independent Historian, Cambridge, MA
From 1997-2005 Susan Ware served as editor of volume five of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Her research interests include twentieth-century American history and the history of American women, as well as biography. She has published books on women in the New Deal and the 1930s; biographies of Molly Dewson, Amelia Earhart, and Mary Margaret McBride; and a women's history anthology.

Lecture Topics

• A Sporting Chance: Title IX and Women's History
  
• Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism
• Notable American Women: An Editor’s Perspective on Twentieth-Century American Women's History
• Mary Margaret McBride and the History of Talk Radio

Harry L. Watson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Harry L. Watson is professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1976. His publications have explored the influence of social change and conflict on Jacksonian politics. He is currently at work on a history of the United States. He is interested in the cultural and intellectual problem of constructing a synthetic history of the nation that focuses on the public sphere, does justice to neglected groups and the social history of the last generation, and does not sacrifice its narrative coherence to the elusive ideal of “inclusiveness.”

Lecture Topics

• Majority Rule, Equal Rights, and Limited Government: The Complex Legacy of Andrew Jackson
  

Joan Waugh
University of California, Los Angeles
Joan Waugh researches and writes about nineteenth-century America, specializing in Civil War and Reconstruction. Her first book, Unsentimental Reformer: The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell (1998) is a biography of an important social welfare figure in 1880s New York City. She is coauthor, with Alice Fahs, of The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture (2004), and her most recent book is U.S. Grant: American Hero, American Myth (2009). In addition to teaching undergraduate lecture and seminar classes, every summer Waugh takes a small group of UCLA students to Gettysburg National Military Park and other selected Civil War sites to study the effects of the war. She has been honored with several teaching prizes, including UCLA’s "Distinguished Teaching Award," and has been interviewed for many documentaries, including PBS's "American Experience" episode on Ulysses S. Grant.

Lecture Topics

• The Troubled Legacy of Ulysses S. Grant
  
• The Shaw Family and the 54th Massachusetts (Colored) Infantry
• "The Nation's Greatest Hero Should Rest in the Nation's Greatest City": The Fight over Grant's Tomb
• UCLA At Gettysburg: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Taking Students to Historical Sites

Barbara Y. Welke
University of Minnesota
Barbara Y. Welke is associate professor of history and professor of law at the University of Minnesota. She teaches and writes on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history and U.S. legal and constitutional history. She is author of Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (2001), winner of the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize. She is now working on two books: a study of legal personhood and citizenship from the American Revolution through the 1920s, and a study of product liability and consumer product safety from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century.

Lecture Topics

• Railroads, Hazard, and the Recasting of Individual Liberty
  
• Gender, Jim Crow, and American Railroads
• Legal Personhood and Citizenship in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Historical Perspectives on Hazardous Products and Consumer Safety

Beth S. Wenger
University of Pennsylvania
Beth S. Wenger is Katz Family Term Chair in American Jewish History at the University of Pennsylvania where she directs the Jewish studies program. She is author of New York Jews and the Great Depression: Uncertain Promise (1996), winner of the Salo Baron Prize in Jewish History; The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America (2007), companion volume to the PBS documentary of the same name; and the forthcoming History Lessons: The Invention of American Jewish Heritage. She is coeditor of Remembering the Lower East Side (2000), as well as “Holy Land:” Place, Past, and Future in American Jewish Culture (1997).

Lecture Topics

• Narrating American Jewish History
  
• In Search of American Jewish Heritage
• The Lower East Side in American Jewish Culture
• Civics Lessons: Jews and American National Holidays
• War Stories: Jewish Patriotism on Parade

Elliott West
University of Arkansas
Elliott West, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, is a specialist in the social and environmental history of the American West. He has twice been chosen as his university's teacher of the year and is author of several books, including The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1995); The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado (1998), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize; and, most recently, The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009).

Lecture Topics

• A War of Dreams: Indians, Whites and the Struggle for the Great Plains
  
• Growing Up Western: Childhood on the Frontier
• The Great Plains: America's Meeting Ground
• Selling the Dream: The West in Advertising
• Bison R Us: The Buffalo as American Icon

Carmen T. Whalen
Williams College
Carmen Teresa Whalen is associate professor of history at Williams College, where she teaches courses in Latina/o history. She is author of From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies (2001), and coeditor of The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Historical Perspectives (2005). She has recently assembled a photographic history of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia for the Images of America series. Her current research focuses on Puerto Rican women, New York City’s garment industry, and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union in the post-World War II era.

Lecture Topics

• Redefining Labor Migrations: Puerto Rican Women in the Post-World War II Era
  
• The Puerto Rican Diaspora: Colonialism, Citizenship, and Community Building
• “The Day the Dresses Stopped”: Puerto Rican Women, the Garment Industry, and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union

Jeannie Whayne
University of Arkansas
Jeannie Whayne is professor of history at the University of Arkansas and adjunct curator of American history at the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas. She is author, editor, or coauthor of eight books, including A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas (1996), A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest (2005), and the forthcoming Forging a Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Southern Agriculture. She has launched research on an environmental history of the lower Mississippi River Valley.

Lecture Topics

• A Shifting Middle Ground: Arkansas's Frontier Exchange Economy and the Louisiana Purchase
  
• Tripping Toward Katrina: One Hundred Years of Flood Control along the Mississippi River Valley
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: African American Farm Agents
• Chasing Hope in a Wild and Sickly Country: A Homesteader Family's Struggle to Survive in the Arkansas Delta
• The Rural Dimension of the Long Civil Rights Struggle
• The Pitfalls of Collaborating with a Playwright: Turning a Fact-based Story of a Near-Lynching into a Play

Shane White
University of Sydney
Shane White has been at the University of Sydney since he was seventeen years old. Currently professorial fellow and professor of American history there, he studies African American history-- particularly the lives and experiences of ordinary African Americans--and often concentrates on black street life. He is coauthor, most recently, of The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons, and Speech (2005) and is currently engaged in a collaborative project on everyday life in Harlem, 1915-30.

Lecture Topics

• Staging Freedom in Black New York
  
• Sounds of Slavery
• When Black Kings and Queens Ruled in Harlem
• The Black Eagle of Harlem: Herbert Julian

Stephen J. Whitfield
Brandeis University
Stephen J. Whitfield holds the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University, where he specializes in twentieth-century politics and culture. He has also published widely on the American Jewish experience. His most recent books include The Culture of the Cold War (1991, rev. ed. 1996) and In Search of American Jewish Culture (1999). He is editor of the Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century America (2004).

Lecture Topics

• Security versus Liberty: The Pentagon Papers as History
  
• The Culture of the Cold War
• American Political Humor in the Twentieth Century
• Making America Harmonious: Jews in the Making of the Nation's Music
• The Meaning of the American Jewish Experience

Frank J. Williams
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Chief Justice (Ret.) of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, Frank J. Williams is author of Judging Lincoln (2002) and coauthor of The Emancipation Proclamation: Three Views (2008), among other works. He has amassed a private library and archive that ranks among the nation's largest and finest Lincoln collections. Founding chair of the Lincoln Forum and past president of the Abraham Lincoln Association, he serves as literary editor of the Lincoln Herald, where his quarterly “Lincolniana” survey appears, and is currently at work on an annotated bibliography of Lincoln titles published since 1865.

Lecture Topics

• Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties in Wartime
  
• Abraham Lincoln and Leadership
• Abraham Lincoln, Commander in Chief
• Judging Abraham Lincoln as a Judge
• Abraham Lincoln as a Lawyer

Rhonda Y. Williams
Case Western Reserve University
Rhonda Y. Williams is associate professor of history at Case Western Reserve University and program faculty for the ethnic studies and women and gender studies programs there. She teaches courses on African American and women’s history, social policy, and social movements. Her research, which focuses on race, gender, and urban politics, pays particular attention to poor people’s experiences and struggles after the 1930s in the United States. She is author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles against Urban Inequality (2004), which won an award from the Association of Black Women Historians. She is currently working on a book on the history and culture of illegal narcotics in cities following World War II tentatively entitled The Dope Wars.

Lecture Topics

• Obscured Lives: Poor Black Women and Struggles for Justice
  
• Rethinking Urban History from the Margins
• Black Women and Engendering Black Power
• From the Politics of Public Housing to the Politics of Drugs
• Keepers of Information: Oral History, Performance, and Pedagogy