The First Measured Century: Interviews: Segment 4

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
	Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture Robert and Helen Lynd Measure Muncie, Indiana

	Staughton Lynd Interview	Staughton Lynd is the son of Robert and Helen Lynd, the sociologists who wrote Middletown, and Middletown in Transition. Staughton Lynd is a labor activist by profession. He is the editor of We Are All Leaders: The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s and The New Rank and File. He is the author of Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical’s Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement.

	Theodore Caplow is the Commonwealth Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He is a co-author of The First Measured Century and Recent Social Trends in the United States, 1960-1990. He is the author of American Social Trends among many other works. Professor Caplow was a co-founder of the International Research Group for the Comparative Charting of Social Change and directs the Group’s U.S. activities. Professor Caplow was the principal investigator of the Middletown III project and is principal investigator of Middletown IV.	Theodore Caplow Interview

	E. Bruce Geelhoed Interview	E. Bruce Geelhoed is the Director of the Center for Middletown Studies and Professor of History at Ball State University. He is the author of The Rotary Club of Indianapolis; Charles E. Wilson and Controversy at the Pentagon 1953-1957; and The Thrill of Success: The Story of SYSCO/Frost-Pack Food Services Inc. He is a co-author of Margaret Thatcher.

	David M. Kennedy is a Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War 1929-1945, which discusses how the New Deal redressed income and job insecurity after the Depression. Professor Kennedy also wrote The American Spirit Since 1865, and Over Here: the First World War and American Society.	David M. Kennedy Interview

	Nancy Koehn Interview	Nancy Koehn is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School, where her specialty is business history. She is the author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgewood to Dell; and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire.

	Howard M. Bahr is a Professor of Sociology at Brigham Young University. Professor Bahr was director of field research for the Middletown IV study (1999). He is a co-author of Recent Social Trends in the United States 1960-1990; and Divorce and Remarriage. He is the author of Dine Bibliography to the 1990s: A Companion to the Navajo Bibiliography of 1969.	Howard M. Bahr Interview

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