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Connect with outstanding speakers on American history. Created in 1981 by OAH president Gerda Lerner, the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program now features more than three hundred U.S. historians.

Each speaker has agreed to give one lecture on OAH’s behalf during the 2008-2009 academic year, designating the lecture fee in full as a donation to OAH. Lecture fees start at $1,000. Host institutions pay the lecture fee to OAH as well as the speakers’ travel and lodging expenses.

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Catherine Allgor
University of California, Riverside
A 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 American Conservatism: A History (forthcoming 2008), 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

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 six books, including The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800 (2000). Among his current projects are an edition of John Locke’s colonial writings and a history of the idea 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
University of Illinois at Chicago
Eric Arnesen, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, 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). He is currently conducting research on the history of the horse and the convergence of cultures in the American West.

Lecture Topics

• After the Discovery: The Tragedy of William Clark and the Transformation of the American Frontier
  
• The Legacy of Daniel Boone: The Boone Family and American Westward Expansion
• American Confluence: The Meeting of Peoples and Empires at the Meeting of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers
• The Making of the First American West
• Returning the West to the World
• Horses and the History of the American West

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

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

• Aftermath: New Lives after the American Civil War
  
• 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 of eighteen books, including, most recently, California History: A Topical Approach (2002), and 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). His forthcoming books are The Mining Law of 1872 and Icons of the American West. 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
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.

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

Rick Beard
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Rick Beard is executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the companion foundation. He has more than thirty-five years of experience in museum administration, interpretive exhibition and program development, and fundraising at institutions that include the New-York Historical Society, the Atlanta Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York, the Hudson River Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery. He is coauthor of Packaging Presidents: Two Hundred Years of Campaigns and Candidates (1984).

Lecture Topics

• Packaging Presidents: Two Hundred Years of Campaigns and Candidates (illustrated)
  
• The Civil War Centennial: Failed Commemoration
• Revolutionizing the History Museum: The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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
• The Transformation of American Higher Education, 1945-2000

Carol Berkin
Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Carol Berkin is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is author and editor of several books, including Women of America: A History (1980), ed. with Mary Beth Norton; Women, War and Revolution: A Comparative History (1980), ed. with Clara Lovett; First Generations: Women in Colonial America (1986); A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution (2002); Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence (2005); and the forthcoming Exploring Women's Studies: Looking Forward, Looking Back. Her current research focuses on women in the Civil War era. She is a frequent contributor to television documentaries and serves on the boards of the National Council for History Education, the Museum of American Women, the New-York Historical Society, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Lecture Topics

• Women in the American Revolution
  
• The Constitutional Convention
• Angelina Grimke and the Abolitionist Movement
• George Washington and the Newburgh Conspiracy

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

Surendra Bhana
University of Kansas, Emeritus
Surendra Bhana is professor emeritus of history at the University of Kansas and coauthor, most recently, of The Making of a Political Reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914 (2005). His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa with special reference to Asians. Having lived in South Africa for over forty years under the system of apartheid, he brings many personal observations to his research and teaching. He is also interested in Gandhi's influence on Martin Luther King Jr.

Lecture Topics

• Gandhi and Mandela in South African History
  

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

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
Stuart Blumin is professor of history and director of the Cornell in Washington program at Cornell University. 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. 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 the 1930s and 1940s. 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; international 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 in Germany during spring 2008.

Lecture Topics

• Historical Perspectives on Human Rights and International Justice
  
• Re-examining the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Trials
• Challenges in Comparative Constitutional Interpretation
• Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and other policymakers, diplomats and intellectuals of the 1930s and 1940s

Eileen Boris
University of California, Santa Barbara
Eileen Boris is Hull Professor and Chair of Women's Studies and affiliate professor of history, black studies, and law and society at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is copresident of the Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH) and president of the board of trustees of The Journal of Women's History; she was 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

Gabor Boritt
Gettysburg College
Gabor Boritt serves as director of the Civil War Institute and Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies at Gettysburg College. He is author, coauthor, or editor of seventeen books on Lincoln and the Civil War, including most recently, The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows (2006), and his work has been translated into five languages. Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Lincoln Prize and advisory board cochair for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, he also serves on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Gettysburg Foundation. He has appeared on NBC, CNN, C-SPAN, Arts and Entertainment, the History Channel, as well as in cameo roles in the films Gettysburg and Gods and Generals; he also served as a historical advisor to both films. In the recent documentary, "Budapest to Gettysburg," Boritt reluctantly returns to Budapest to discover the roots of his groundbreaking work on Lincoln, the Civil War, and American democracy.

Lecture Topics

• The Gettysburg Gospel: The Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows
  
• Budapest to Gettysburg

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. His lifelong research interests have focused on the ways that African Americans have conceptualized their existence in the United States and how they have organized themselves both to survive and to struggle against the existing obstacles, with a particular focus on social and political movements and ideologies since the 1880's. 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. His longstanding interest regarding Jewish Americans and African Americans is an integral part of his research on the NAACP, organized labor, and the Left.

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 New Black Power Scholarship: New Paths and Deadends
• The NAACP and Organized Labor, 1909-1965: Conflicts and Convergences

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.)

Alan Brinkley
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley is provost and 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
• Wars for Freedom, Wars on Freedom: Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
• 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

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
Since 1988, Charles Bryan has served as president and CEO 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
Paul Buhle, currently a lecturer in history and American civilization at Brown University, is author or editor of twenty-seven books on radicalism, labor, and popular culture, including five volumes on the films of the Hollywood blacklistees. Most recently, he edited the three-volume set, Jews and American Popular Culture (2006), and coedited Wobblies: A Graphic History (2005) and The New Left Revisited (2003), winner of an American Library Association's Choice Academic Book Award. He has written for The Nation, Times Higher Education Supplement, The Guardian, and the Journal of American History, among others. He founded the journal Radical America (1967-95), the Oral History of the American Left project (New York University, 1976- ), and the Community and Labor Oral History project of Rhode Island.

Lecture Topics

• The Industrial Workers of the World on Their Centenary
  
• The Hollywood Blacklist and Films of the Hollywood Left, 1930-1980
• American Labor's Rise, Fall, and Troubled Present
• Jewish Influences on American Popular Culture
• Realities and Legacies of the 1960s
• History of Comic Art

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
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Vernon Burton is also a senior research scientist and associate director for the humanities and social sciences at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He 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
• Lincoln as a Southerner

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)

Clayborne Carson
Stanford University
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. He has written or edited numerous works based on the papers, including The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998); A Knock at Midnight (1998); A Call to Conscience (2000); and the docudrama "Passages of Martin Luther King." He has also served as senior advisor for the fourteen-part, award-winning public television series on the civil rights movement, "Eyes on the Prize."

Lecture Topics

• Martin Luther King Jr.
  
• Malcolm X
• The Black Panther Party
• 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

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

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) and, with David L. Carlton, The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (2003).

Lecture Topics

• Slavery and 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

Lizabeth Cohen
Harvard University
Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and chair of the department of history at Harvard University. She is author of Making A New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (1990, 2nd ed. 2008) and A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003), and coauthor, with David Kennedy, of The American Pageant (2006). She is currently at work on a study of the rebuilding of American cities in the post-World War II era, told through the life and career of Edward J. Logue, a major figure in the urban renewal of New Haven, Boston, and New York City and state from 1950 to 2000.

Lecture Topics

• Edward J. Logue and the Rebuilding of American Cities after World War II
  
• Utopia on the East River: Building the Great Society on New York City's Roosevelt Island
• Architect Paul Rudolph and the Urban Renewal of New Haven

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.

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 Early American Origins of Gun Control
  
• Neither Individual nor Collective: A New Paradigm for the Second Amendment
• Re-envisioning the American History Survey: Taking Visual Sources Seriously

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
  

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 The Social and Behavioral Sciences in America: A Brief History.

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 the forthcoming Rediscovering Jacob Riis. He is also coauthor of Out of Many: A History of the American People (5th ed. 2006), which was banned from Texas high schools in 2003. 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. His current book project focuses on the history of New York City’s underside and its uneasy relationship to 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 and codirector of the Brace Center on Gender Studies 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
• The Mystery of the White Lilies and the Iron Boot: Foreign Policy Making in the Era of Hitler and Mussolini
• 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
  
• Toxic Drift: Pesticides and Health, 1945-1970
• African American Farmers and Civil Rights

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 Colorado, Boulder
Brian DeLay teaches Native American and borderlands history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. 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 his book The War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War is forthcoming. His next project examines Indians and the arms trade in the Americas.

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 forthcoming The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights, Race, and the Politics of Health Care in America, 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. He is completing a book with Walter Licht, Facing Industrial Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920-1990. For seven years he has been coeditor of "Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000," a website (http://womhist.binghamton.edu) that has grown from a modest project, publishing undergraduate research projects, to an online journal and a major resource in U.S. women's history. 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
Guirado Professor of Law and History at the University of Southern California, during 2007-08 Mary L. Dudziak was a member of the School of Social Science and Institute for Advanced Study, and a Guggenheim Fellow. She 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

Thomas G. Dyer
University of Georgia
Thomas G. Dyer is University Professor of History and Higher Education at the University of Georgia. His most recent book is Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta (1999). He is author of two additional books, Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race (1980) and The University of Georgia: A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (1985).

Lecture Topics

• Yankees in Georgia? A Meditation on Unionism in the Civil War South
  
• Ways of Teaching: How Professors Have Taught Since Medieval Times
• The Idea of the American University, 1700-1870

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) and 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. His research interests focus on the antislavery movement and the political events leading up to the Civil War. He is currently working on a book about John Brown’s raid.

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) and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000). She is currently working on a book-length manuscript, The People and Their Peace: The Reconstitution of Governance in the Post-Revolutionary U.S. South. She is also currently first vice president of the Southern Association of Women Historians.

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