Interpreting American History: The New Deal and the Great Depression

Contributors

contributors 222 contributors michael w. Barberich is a visiting assistant professor at the University at Albany, sUny, where he teaches courses in presidential and political rhetoric, media communication, and the cultural history of radio broadcasting. He completed his phD in rhetoric and communication at the University of pittsburgh. His dissertation, “From the Frontier to the Fireside: rhetoric and public memory in the Depression and the war,” concerned the use of public memory in roosevelt’s fireside chats. michael A. Davis is an associate professor of history at liberty University , and the author of a forthcoming book on the wartime presidential campaign of 1944. He completed his phD in history at the University of Arkansas. He lives in lynchburg, Virginia, with his wife Holly and their three girls. Jennifer egolf teaches world history at Indiana University of pennsylvania . she earned her phD in history at the University of west Virginia. Her dissertation, “ʻKeep America American’: great Depression, government Intervention, and rural conservative response in somerset county, pennsylvania, 1922–1940,” analyzed the ways in which new Deal programs , affecting farmers and the unemployed, created tension among rural Americans. egolf co-edited Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays in Honor of Ronald L. Lewis (morgantown: west Virginia University press, 2009), which includes her chapter, “radical challenge and conservative triumph: the struggle to Define American Identity in the somerset county coal strike, 1922–1923.” Her historical focus on twentieth-century United states includes specializations in labor, gender, and community. todd Holmes is a postdoctoral fellow with the Bill lane center for the American west at stanford University. He earned his phD in history at yale University and is the author of several publications, including the award-winning article, “the economic roots of reaganism,” in the West- Contributors 223 ern Historical Quarterly. His current book project uses the United Farm workers movement to examine shifts in party politics and political economy between the 1960s and 1980s. peter luddington-ForonJy is an associate professor of history at mt. san Jacinto community college. He received his phD in history at the University of california, los Angeles. He is currently researching Franklin D. roosevelt’s role promoting economic interdependence in the international arena as both a means for preventing another global conflict and a vehicle for raising living standards throughout the world. sharon Ann musher is an associate professor of history and director of the master of Arts in American studies at the richard stockton college of new Jersey. she earned a phD in history from columbia University. musher has published articles and reviews in American Quarterly, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Jewish Journal of Sociology, and Women and Social Movements. she has a forthcoming chapter on the wpA slave narratives in The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative (new york: oxford University press), and her book, A New Deal for Art, is under contract with the University of chicago press. stuart patterson teaches a broad range of courses in the natural and social sciences and humanities at shimer college in chicago, Illinois. He earned a phD in history from emory University. His dissertation examined two new Deal “new towns” at Arthurdale, west Virginia, and Aberdeen gardens, Virginia. patterson’s research explores themes in the culture and politics of the 1930s, including the myths and rituals of twentiethcentury American life. Aaron D. purcell is a professor and director of special collections at Virginia tech. He earned his phD in history from the University of tennessee and his master’s of library science from the University of maryland , college park. purcell is the author of White Collar Radicals: TVA’s Knoxville Fifteen, the New Deal, and the McCarthy Era (Knoxville: University of tennessee press, 2009), Academic Archives: Managing the Next Generation of College and University Archives, Records, and Special Collections (chicago: neal-schuman, 2012), and Arthur Morgan: A Progressive Vision for American Reform (Knoxville: University of tennessee press, 2014). He is also the editor of The Journal of East Tennessee History. Douglas sheflin is a phD candidate and part-time instructor at the University of colorado, Boulder. He studies modern American history with a contributors 224 focus on both environmental history and the history of the west. sheflin’s dissertation, “conservation in transition: the colorado plains through Dust, rain, and war,” deals with land use in southeast colorado during the 1930s and 1940s, with a special focus on how residents responded to the Dust...