Professor of History, Georgetown University
"What Is the Legacy of the 1960s?"
8:00 PM Friday, November 06, 2015
University Center Ballroom
"A War Against War: The Americans Who Fought For Peace: 1914-1918"
3:10 PM Friday, November 06, 2015
Gallagher Business Building Room 123
Please join us for a seminar and lecture with Michael Kazin, who in 1983 received a Ph.D. from Stanford University. Prior to joining the Georgetown history department, he taught at American University in Washington, D.C. An expert on 19th- and 20th-century U.S. politics and social movements, he has published the following books:
- Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era (1987)
- The Populist Persuasion: An American History (1995)
- America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s (1999, co-authored with Maurice Isserman)
- A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan (2006)
- American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (2011)
He currently is at work on “War against War: The Rise, Defeat, and Legacy of the American Peace Movement, 1914-1918.
Professor Kazin is the editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2010) and The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2011). With Joseph McCartin, he is the co-editor of Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal (2006). He is co-editor of Dissent, a leading magazine of the American left.
The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.