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Big Business & Big Labor Teaching U.S. Economic History in Schools Featuring T.J. Stiles, Author, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt Philip Dray, Author, There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America T.J. Stiles is an award-winning biographer who lives in Berkeley, California. His book The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, won a National Book Award and the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota with Distinction in History, and received a fellowship to study European history at Columbia University. After receiving a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy, he took a position in publishing at Oxford University Press, where he worked on books by some of the leading American historians. Photo Credit: Michael Lionstar Philip Dray is an American social and cultural historian who has written on a range of subjects from civil rights and labor history to Benjamin Franklin’s scientific endeavors. He was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize in 2003 for At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, and his 2010 publication, There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America was selected as a Top 5 Book of the Year by National Public Radio. Photo Credit: Mindy Tucker David Nasaw is the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Professor Nasaw received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He is the author of The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew Carnegie, and The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Professor Nasaw is a past president of the Society of American Historians. Miriam Pawel is an author, journalist, and independent historian who has written about agriculture, the United Farm Workers, and Cesar Chavez. Her book, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez - A Biography, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Prize, the California Book Award, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. Her previous book,The Union of Their Dreams - Power, Hope and Struggle in Cesar Chavez’s Farm Worker Movement, was a groundbreaking narrative history told through eight participants in the movement. Maury Klein is one of the nation’s foremost business and economic historians. He is the author of eighteen books and innumerable articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. His most recent work is A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II. He has been inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. In 2014 he was awarded a New York/New England Emmy for best writing for a documentary, “Railroad Man: The Life and Legend of Jay Gould,” based on his biography of Gould. Monday, January 25, 2016 8:00 AM - 10:45 AM Omni Parker House, 60 School St., Boston, MA This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by Monday, January 18th to Brian Patterson at 617-723-2277, ext. 217 or [email protected].

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William Randolph Hearst and His Impact on American Foreign Policy During the Interwar Period
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