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Colin Gordon, “Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs”

HSSB 4041

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) will present "Citizen Brown: Race, Democracy, and Inequality in the St. Louis Suburbs." Gordon is an historian of US public policy, political economy, and urban […]

Rosemarie Zagarri on “The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College”

HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

On October 24 at 4:00pm in HSSB 4080, Professor Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University will present a talk titled "The Murky Past and Contested Future of the Electoral College." The event is free and open to the public. This talk will examine the roots of the American system for electing its president and explore […]

Eric Rauchway, “A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941”

HSSB 4041 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara

As part of the The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy's "The Political Economy of Racial Inequality" Fall Quarter speaker series, Eric Rauchway (History, University of California Davis) will present "A New Deal Voting Rights Case: A Strategy of the Roosevelt Justice Department, 1939-1941." Rauchway is the author of Murdering McKinley: The Making […]