The First Measured Century: Interviews: Segment 8

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 1930-1960
	World War II: the Homefront

	David M. Kennedy Interview	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.

	William O'Neill is a Professor of History at Rutgers University. He is the author of A Democracy at War: America’s Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II; American High: The Years of Confidence 1945-1960; and Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960’s. Professor O’Neill has also written on the history of divorce, feminism, and the 1960’s.	William O'Neill Interview

	William Julius Wilson Interview	William Julius Wilson is a University Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is a past president of American Sociological Association and recipient of the National Medal of Science. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; and When Work Disappears. His most recent book, The Bridge over the Racial Divide is a call for inter-racial coalition-building to effect social change.

	Alice Kessler-Harris is a Professor of History at Columbia University. She is the author of Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States. She is a co-editor of Past Imperfect: Alternative Essays in American History.	Alice Kessler-Harris Interview

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