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Events: 2008 History Schedule
History Summary
Friday, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
"Americanization and Globalization:
A New Look at Cold War History"
Speaker: Emily Rosenberg, Professor of History, University of California - Irvine
Friday, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
"It's the 60s, Stupid"
Speaker: Steve Gillon, Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
"Women and Revolution: the Role of Women after the American, French and Italian Revolutions"
Speaker: Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College & the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Friday, February 22nd, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Friday morning's History Section will examine "Americanization and Globalization: A New Look at Cold War History," with Emily Rosenberg, professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
The speaker notes, "Historians have often grounded their explanations for the end of the Cold War within the story of geopolitical rivalries waged by high political leaders and played out on the terrain of nation states. This talk will propose a different and more global framework. It will emphasize the transnational spread of ideas associated with mass consumerism. Should one look at the transnational spread of consumer societies in the post World War II era, however, as "Americanization" or as "globalization"? What might be the relationships between the two? This illustrated talk will argue that mass consumerism contributed to the Cold War's end less because it was closely identified with America than because, by the late 1980s, it had become no longer primarily associated with it."
Two of Dr. Rosenberg's books, Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945 and Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930, deal with the intersections of culture and economics in U.S. international relations. Her most recent book, A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory (also translated into Japanese), examines the issue of collective historical memory in a media age. She is a coauthor of Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People (5th ed., 2007).
Friday, February 22nd, 2:30-3:45 p.m.
Friday afternoon, the group will consider "It's the 60s, Stupid," with Steve Gillon, professor of history at the University of Oklahoma.
"If you want to know the difference between me and Newt," President Clinton told Dr. Gillon in an interview about his clashes with House Speaker Newt Gingrich, "you have to go back to the '60s. If you think the 60s were generally good, chances are you're a liberal. If you think they're bad, you're probably a conservative." Dr. Gillon adds that, while there are many reasons for the polarization of American
politics today, the clash over the legacy of the 1960s is central to the debate.
This talk, according to the speaker, will examine the sources of today's culture wars, challenge some of the "myths" of the 1960s, and show how our "second civil war" still shapes the political debate in America.
Dr. Gillon has anchored The History Channel's Sunday morning current events program, HistoryCENTER, since its debut in 1998. He also hosts other popular programs on the cable network.
He is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books and articles, including two college textbooks: The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945 and The American Experiment: A History of the United States with co-author Cathy Matson. His most recent book is: The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry that Defined a Generation.
Meet Dr. Gillon on TCCTA Online!
Saturday, February 23rd, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Saturday morning the group will examine "Women and Revolution: the Role of Women after the American, French and Italian Revolutions," with Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
This talk examines the rise of 'patriotic motherhood' in the aftermath of three major modern revolutions, focusing on both the similarities of the new gender role in each nation and on the critical differences.
Dr. Berkin is the author and editor of several books, including Women of America: A History, ed. with Mary Beth Norton; Women, War and Revolution: A Comparative History, ed. with Clara Lovett, First Generations: Women in Colonial America; A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution; Exploring Women's Studies: Looking Forward Looking Back; and Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence.
Dr. Berkin's current research focuses on women in the Civil War era. She is a frequent contributor to television documentaries on early American and Revolutionary Era history.
She is currently a member of the board of the Academy of New York History, the board of the National Council for History Education, the Advisory Board of the Museum of American Women in NYC, and the board of the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History.
History Section Chair:
Robert Glen Findley, Odessa College