Keynote Address
Session Number
Keynote Address
Start Date
27-2-2015 8:15 AM
End Date
27-2-2015 9:00 AM
Description
Robert Johnston, co-chair of the department’s WRGUW Ph.D. concentration, specializes in the Progressive Era, post-1970 U.S. history, the history of medicine, and the politics of historiography. His The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton University Press, 2003) received the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. He is currently working on a book that will explore the history of controversies over vaccination in American history, to be published by Oxford University Press. He has also edited or co-edited volumes on the history of twentieth-century alternative medicine, rural politics, and (with UIC’s Burt Bledstein) the American middle class. His latest historiographical essays are “The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877 to 1917” in Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, eds., American History Now (Temple University Press/American Historical Association, 2011), “The Madison Moment: Labor Historians as Public Intellectuals during the Wisconsin Labor Crisis,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 9(Summer 2012): 7-24, and “Long Live Teddy/Death to Woodrow: The Polarized Politics of The Progressive Era in the 2012 Election,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 13(July 2014), 411-443. In 2013, he became co-editor of of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
Keynote Address
Robert Johnston, co-chair of the department’s WRGUW Ph.D. concentration, specializes in the Progressive Era, post-1970 U.S. history, the history of medicine, and the politics of historiography. His The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy and the Question of Capitalism in Progressive Era Portland, Oregon (Princeton University Press, 2003) received the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association. He is currently working on a book that will explore the history of controversies over vaccination in American history, to be published by Oxford University Press. He has also edited or co-edited volumes on the history of twentieth-century alternative medicine, rural politics, and (with UIC’s Burt Bledstein) the American middle class. His latest historiographical essays are “The Possibilities of Politics: Democracy in America, 1877 to 1917” in Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr, eds., American History Now (Temple University Press/American Historical Association, 2011), “The Madison Moment: Labor Historians as Public Intellectuals during the Wisconsin Labor Crisis,” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 9(Summer 2012): 7-24, and “Long Live Teddy/Death to Woodrow: The Polarized Politics of The Progressive Era in the 2012 Election,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 13(July 2014), 411-443. In 2013, he became co-editor of of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.