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John Summers
"C. Wright Mills and the Politics of Truth"
Monday, September 21 at 10:35 am in the
Union's Christie Theater
Summers is Visiting Scholar at the Boisi
Center for Religion and American Public Life
at Boston College. He has taught at
Harvard University, Columbia University, and
The Cooper Union. The author of Every
Fury on Earth (2008) and the editor of
The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings
of C. Wright Mills (2008), he is
currently completing a biography of C.
Wright Mills.
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Jonathan
Holloway
"'It Never Happened': Race, Class and the
Unbearable Burden of Memory"
Monday, October 26 at 12:45 pm in the Union's Christie Theater
Holloway is Professor of History and African American Studies - and
Master of Calhoun College - at Yale University. The author of
Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and
Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002), the editor of Ralph Bunche's
A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (2005), and
the co-editor of the anthology, Black Scholars on the Line: Race,
Social Science, and American Thought in the 20th Century
(2007), he is presently working on his next monograph, Jim Crow
Wisdom: Memory, Identity, and Politics in Black America, 1941-2000.
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Jeremi
Suri
"Henry Kissinger and the American Century"
Thursday, November 12 at 2 pm in the Union's Christie Theater
Suri is the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. In 2007, Smithsonian Magazine named him
one of America's "Top Young Innovators" in the humanities and
sciences. He is also the 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).
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David Thelen explains how Americans relate to history.
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