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Falmouth Forum Series 2008-2009
"The U.S.A. from Watergate to 9/11"
October 10, 2008 - Lillie Auditorium, 7:30 PM
Lectures are free and open to the public.
James T. Patterson, Professor of History emeritus, Brown University
Abstract:
This talk will highlight main themes of this exciting (and in many ways promising) era, in the process comparing and contrasting them with developments during the subsequent eight years of the Bush presidency.
James T. Patterson is the Ford Foundation Professor of History emeritus at Brown University, where he has taught for 30 years. His research interests include political, legal, and social history, as well as the history of medicine, race relations, and education.
He is regarded as a preeminent Brown v. Board of Education scholar. In 2001, he published "Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy." Patterson raises questions about the roles of the Supreme Court and President Eisenhower, of the effect of desegregation on the academic achievement of black children, and the ruling's role in the civil rights movement.
Before joining the Brown University faculty, Patterson taught at Indiana University, where he published his first works, "Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal," "The New Deal and the States: Federalism in Transition," and "Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft." While there, he received the Frederick Jackson Turner Book Prize from the Organization of American Historians in 1966 and the Indiana University Teaching Award in 1968, as well as two National Endowment for Humanities Fellowships and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Patterson won the Bancroft Prize for American History in 1997 with "Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974." A number of his books have been History Book Club Selections.
Patterson was elected a member of the Society of American Historians in 1974 and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1997.
Admission to this Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. A buffet dinner is available before the lecture at 6:00 p.m. in the Swope Center located near the auditorium. Dinner tickets are $25 and must be purchased in advance at either Eight Cousins Children’s Books, Main Street, Falmouth, or at the MBL’s Communications Office in the Candle House in Woods Hole. Dinner seats are limited and tickets are only available until they sell out or until 5:00 on the Tuesday before the lecture. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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