Title: Making an Urban Nation from its Founding

 

Speaker: David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte

 

Time: 14:00-16:00, Monday, May 13

 

Host: Zhilin Liu, Associate Professor, MDP Executive Director, School of Public Policy and Management

 

Venue: Room 302, School of Public Policy and Management

 

 

David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.  A native of Memphis, he grew up in Brooklyn and attended the University of Maryland.  He is the author or editor of sixteen books including two, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers (1982) and Black, White, and Southern (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history.  His most recent book is the widely acclaimed, America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2011.  He is currently working on a book, “The Gifted Generation,” about life in post-World War II America.  Goldfield is also the Editor of the Journal of Urban History and serves as Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.  He is President of the Southern Historical Association.