Progressivism, Democracy & Urban Diversity

James Connolly, director of Ball State University's Center for Middletown Studies, will consider how reform impulses of the late 19th century reverberated well into the 20th century and impacted America's large cities.
When Feb 21, 2012
from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Where Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville
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Contact Phone 502-852-8811
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Do cities promote civic leadership and the common good or are they vehicles through which class conflict, ethnic differences, religious disagreements and other frictions are magnified?

In a free and public lecture sponsored by the McConnell Center, James J. Connolly will explore how reform impulses of the late 19th century reverberated well into the 20th century and impacted America's large cities.

The lecture is scheduled for from 6 to 7 p.m., Feb. 21, at the University of Louisville's Chao Auditorium located in Ekstrom Library (directions).

The McConnell Center offers this free and public event as part of its year-long history project, "Remembering America: From Colonization to the Cold War."

About the Lecturer

Connolly is the director of the Center for Middletown Studies and a professor of history at Ball State University. and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy. He is the author of several books includingAn Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America and The Triumph of Ethnic Progressivism: Urban Political Culture in Boston, 1900-1925.

He earned his doctorate in American history from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.

About the McConnell Center

The McConnell Center offers this Civic Education Program to the public free of charge. The non-profit, non-partisan program was established to assist Kentucky citizens develop a better understanding of the American Constitution and American history and encourage open and free discussion of perennial concerns that inform contemporary politics.