Speakers

Lizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University, and this year's Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen's College, Oxford.

Her publications include 'A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America' (Knopf, 2003), and 'Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939' (Cambridge, 1990), which won the Bancroft Prize in 1991.

A former President of the Urban History Association, her teaching and research interests include consumer and material culture, the built environment, and the political and social life of twentieth-century America.

Godfrey Hodgson has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist; as a television reporter, documentary maker and anchor; as a university teacher and lecturer; and as the author of half a dozen books about U.S. politics and recent history.

He has worked for The Times of London, the London Observer and the London Sunday Times. As the Observer's Washington bureau chief he covered the Cuban missile crisis, the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King, the Kennedy assassination and the Johnson Administration. As "Insight" editor at the Sunday Times he was responsible for a number of investigative stories, including the first expose of Robert Maxwell. He was also responsible for two word exclusives, the full story of the My Lai massacre and the 1971 civil war that led to the independence of Bangladesh.

In television, he was a reporter for the major British news magazine, This Week. In 1972 with director Leslie Woodhead he made a documentary about the Democratic convention at Miami, How to Steal A Party. From 1975 to 1981 he was the anchor of The London Programme and from 1982 to 1984 he was one of the original anchors of Channel Four News. In 1988 he researched and reported Reagan on Reagan, a three-part TV biography of Ronald Reagan. His radio credits include being the chief commentator on NPR's coverage of the U.S. elections in 1972. He is a frequent commentator on BBC World, the BBC's 24-hour digital TV news service.

He has been three times a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He has taught for a semester at the University of California at Berkley and also for a semester at Harvard. He is a visiting journalism professor at the City University in London, and has just retired as director of the Reuters Foundation Programme at Oxford University, where for eight years he was a Fellow of Green College. In 2000 he was selected to give the British Academy's Phillips lecture on the American presidency.

His books include An American Melodrama (co-authored with Lewis Chester and Bruce Page), an account of the U.S. presidential election of 1968; America in Our Time, a history of the U.S. in the 1960s; The World Turned Right Side Up, a history of American conservatism the 20th Century; and most recently a biography of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, The Gentleman from New York.

Dominic Sandbrook is a member of the Oxford University history faculty and a columnist for the London Evening Standard.

Formerly lecturer in history at Sheffield University, he is a prolific writer and broadcaster.

His books include a biography of Senator Eugene McCarthy (Knopf, 2004), two bestselling histories of Britain in the 1950s and 1960s, Never Had It So Good (Little, Brown, 2005) and White Heat (Little, Brown, 2006), and a forthcoming history of the United States in the 1970s, Spirit of ’76 (Knopf, 2009).

Bruce J. Schulman is professor of history and American studies at Boston University.

He is author of From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (1994); and The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Politics, and Society (2001), named one of the notable books of the year by the New York Times.

A frequent contributor to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications, Schulman has appeared as an expert commentator on numerous television and radio programs.

He is currently at work on a volume of the Oxford History of the United States, covering the years 1896-1929.