The Great Depression - Then and Now

On Wednesday, October 7, The Montclair Kimberley Academy will present Dr. Alan Brinkley, Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, as the first speaker in the 2009-10 Hemmeter History Lecture Series.  Dr. Brinkley will address the topic "The Great Depression - Then and Now."

From 2003 to 2008, Dr. Brinkley was Columbia University Provost, and for three years prior to that, chair of the Department of History.  He has been at Columbia since 1991 and taught previously at M.I.T., Harvard, Princeton and the City University Graduate School, and  in 1998-99, was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Dr. Brinkley's published works include Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression (Knopf, 1982), which won the 1983 National Book Award; The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Knopf, 1992); The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War (Knopf, 1995); Liberalism and Its Discontents (Harvard, 1998); Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Oxford, 2009); and The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century (Knopf, forthcoming 2010).  His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals and in such periodicals as the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books. He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the National Humanities Center, the Media Studies Center, Russell Sage Foundation, and others; and he has been the recipient of the Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize at Harvard and the Great Teacher Award at Columbia.   He received his A.B. from Princeton and his Ph.D. from Harvard.

The lecture will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the MKA Upper School Library, 6 Lloyd Road, Montclair.  Dr. Brinkley's books will be available for purchase and signing.   This event is free of charge and open to the public.  Please contact David Hessler at dhessler@mka.org with any questions.