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2006-2007 "The US in the World"
5 October 2006
"Empire's
Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of
the New Imperialism"
Greg Grandin,
New York University
26 October 2006
"THE IRON
CAGE: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood"
Rashid Khalidi, Columbia
University
1 February 2007
"The Problem
from Hell: America in the Age of Genocide"
Samantha Power, Harvard
University
8 March 2007
"The Moral
Consequences of Economic Growth"
Benjamin Friedman, Harvard University
12 April 2007
"Consumer
Culture as Taproot of American Global Hegemony: An
historical perspective"
Victoria de
Grazia, Columbia University
2005-06 "American Science"
22 September 2005 - 11:00 a.m.
"Race and Demography in British America: Who Counted?
Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
3 November 2005 - 11:00 a.m.
"Geography, Science, and the American Lebensraum"
Neil Smith, The Graduate School of the City University of
New York
2 February 2006 - 11:00 a.m.
"Mr. Powell Goes to the UN"
Hugh Gusterson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1 March 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
"Cognitive Science as Applied Philosophy"
John Searle, University of California, Berkeley
6 April 2006 - 11:00 a.m.
"His Brother's Keeper: A Story from the Edge of Medicine"
Jonathan Weiner, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
2004-05 "Supreme Court Decisions"
September 16, 2004 - 4:00 p.m.
"Bad Guys: The President's Power to Detain Enemy
Combatants in the War on Terrorism"
David Cole, Georgetown Law School
October 28, 2004 - 11:00 a.m.
"Plessy v. Ferguson and the Strange Career of Civil Rights"
Eric Foner, Columbia University
February 3, 2005 - 11:00 a.m.
"At the Border of Law and Politics: Bakke and
Affirmative Action"
Laura Kalman, University of California, Santa Barbara
March 3, 2005 - 11:00 a.m.
"Gender Equity Cases: The Meaning of Equality"
Susan Estrich, USC Law School
2003-04 "American Music"
October 2, 2003
Feminine Flamboyance in 18th-Century Mexico: The Music
from America's First Music Conservatory
Craig Russell, California Polytechnic State University,
San Luis Obispo
and performance of Mexican Baroque Music by Ramo de
Flores
November 4, 2003
Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life
Wynton Marsalis
February 12, 2004
A Year in the Life: George Gershwin in 1925
Richard Crawford, University of Michigan
April 1, 2004
Jeepers Creepers: The Songs of Johnny Mercer
Robert Dawidoff, Claremont Graduate University
2002-03 "Public Intellectuals/Public Issues"
September 26, 2002
W.E.B. Dubois' Dusk of Dawn: The End of a Beginning in
African Americanist Inquiry
Kenneth Warren, University of Chicago
October 31, 2002
Updating Veblen: Conspicuous Consumption and Invisible
Workers
Barbara Ehrenreich
November 21, 2002
Between Islands and Factories: Southern California
through the Eyes of Carey McWilliams
George Sanchez, University of Southern California
February 6, 2003
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: America's Cold War Strange
Love
Michael Sherry, Northwestern University
March 6, 2003
The Fallout of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
William Cronon, University of Wisconsin
April 17, 2003
Amazing Grace: The Ethical Resilience of Low Income
Children In Our Nation's Segregated and Unequal Schools
Jonathan Kozol
2001-02 "American Dreams"
October 15, 2001
The Puritan Utopia: Fault Lines,
Diversity, and Holy Rage
Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University
November 15, 2001
Secular Scripture: The
Declaration of Independence as an Exemplar
David Brion
Davis, Yale University
January 31, 2002
Winning and Losing the Right To
Have Rights: Race and Citizenship In the Era of the
Spanish-Cuban-American War, 1898-1903
Rebecca J. Scott,
University of Michigan
February 28, 2002
Competing Visions of Race and and
Nation at the Dawn of the American Century
Thomas C. Holt,
University of Chicago
March 28, 2002
Dorothea Lange and the American Dream
Alan Brinkley, Columbia University
March 10 – May 19, 2002
Art Exhibit Pomona College Museum of
Art The Public Record: Photographs of the Great Depression
from the J. Paul Getty Museum
The Hart Institute for American History, established in 2000
with a gift from Gurnee Hart ’51 and Marjorie Hart, has
for its purpose to ground the study of broad and abiding
themes in American History in the close reading of primary
documents. The Institute sponsors an annual lecture and
workshop series, bringing distinguished scholars to campus
for substantive discussions with students and faculty. |
