The First Measured Century: Interviews: Segment 1

SEGMENTS (abbreviated titles) 1900-1930 Closing of the Frontier Scientific Racism The Children's Bureau Middletown Recent Social Trends 1930-1960 The Great Depression The Gallup Poll World War II Suburban Nation Sexual Behavior 1960-2000 The Feminine Mystique The Moynihan Report Broken Windows Stagflation/Deregulation Middletown IV Census 2000	FMC Program Segments 1900-1930
	Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis "...the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history." - Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893

	William Cronon Interview	William Cronon is the Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of the prize-winning Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West and Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. He is the editor of Uncommon Ground: Toward Reinventing Nature.

	John Milton Cooper is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of Pivotal Decades: The United States 1900-1920; and The Vanity of Power. He co-edited The Wilson Era: Essays in Honor of Arthur S. Link. He edited and wrote the introduction to Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1769-1776.	John Milton Cooper Interview

	Seymour Martin Lipset Interview	Seymour Martin Lipset is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University. He is a past president of the Sociological Research Association, the American Sociological Association, the American Political Science Association and the World Association for Public Opinion Research. He is the author of American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword; Political Man; The Politics of Unreason; The First New Nation, and other works.


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