"What Is the Legacy of the 1960s?"

(in collaboration with the Project on American Democracy and Citizenship)

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 19^th- and 20^th-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.