Our speaker for this year's Nation Among Nations program is David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and editor of the Journal of Urban History. He is author of Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture (1990), which received the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction and the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights; Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002); and Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred (2003).
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Our 2008 speaker for the Nation Among Nations program was Lisa Dorr, from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. In this interesting lecture, Dr. Dorr discussed a range of issues in American history from 1900 through the Second World War, primarily concerning the Industrial Revolution, urbanization and the growth of cities, immigration (which largely caused the growth of those cities), and industrialization, and the growth of America as a world power. The Industrial Revolution of the late 19th/early 20th centuries, of course fueled the boom in cities and immigration that largely define this era. |
