November 3th , 2005
For Immediate Release
For more information:
Megan Laurie
(801) 863-7149
Written by:
Kyle Chilton
(801) 863-8504
UVSC to Host History Lecture Series
As part of the Utah Valley State College Department of History’s “Turning Points in History” lecture series, Dr. Michael McGerr from Indiana University will speak Monday, November 7 at 7 p.m. in room 101 of the Liberal Arts Building. McGerr’s talk will be titled, “The Great Work of Reconstruction: Progressive Reformers and American Liberalism” and will be free and open to the public.
“McGerr's lecture provides the campus and surrounding communities with the opportunity to see a historian at work,” said Lyn Bennett, associate professor of history at UVSC, “Combining the fields of history and philosophy to understand one of the most significant periods of reform in United States History.”
McGerr is a professor of history and adjunct professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. He has authored several books, including A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 and The Decline of Popular Politics: The American North, 1865-1928, and is coauthor of Making a Nation: The United States and Its People (2002).
McGerr is currently writing The Public Be Damned: The Vanderbilts and the Unmaking of the Ruling Class and is also co-editing a collection of primary source documents on the history of American popular music since the Civil War.
He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and several teaching awards, including Indiana University's Sylvia Bowman Award, given to exemplary faculty members in discipline areas related to American civilization.
For more information, contact Dr. Lyn Ellen Bennett at (801) 863-8136.
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