Allan M. Winkler
Contact
Title
- Distinguished Professor of History
- Affiliate of the American Studies Program
Education
- PhD 1974, Yale University
- MA, Columbia University
- BA, Harvard University
Teaching and Research Interests
- Recent U.S. history (20th century)
Recently taught graduate courses
- HST 702 Research Seminar
- HST 710 Colloquium in U.S. History
Current/recent graduate student research
- Peter Barker, UnAmericanism in the Papers: Anticommunists and Their Use of the Press,” 2009
- Vanessa De los Reyes, “I Love Ricky: How Desi Arnaz Challenged American Popular Culture,” 2008
- Rebecca Grudzinski, “Losing Sight of Brooklyn: Identity, Nostalgia and Change in Late 19 th Century Brooklyn, New York,” 2007
- Katie Laux, “Songs in the Key of Protest: How Music Reflects the Social Turbulence in America from the Late 1950s to the Early 1970s,” 2007
- Richard McCandless, “Korean War and Vietnam War Strategies: A Comparison,” 2009
- Aaron Pride, “Black Leadership and Religious Ideology in the Nadir, 1901-1916: Reconsidering the Agitation/Accommodation Divide in the Age of Booker T. Washington,” 2008
- Susan Williams, "Grant Park in Historical Memory," in progress
Selected Publications
- “To Everything There Is a Season”: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Co-author, The American People: Creating a Nation and a Society, Addison Wesley Longman, 7th ed., 2007
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Making of Modern America, Longman, 2005
- Uncertain Safari: Kenyan Encounters and African Dreams, Hamilton Books, University Press of America, 2004
- Editor, Postwar United States, 1946-1968, Volume IX of Encyclopedia of American History under the general editorship of Gary B. Nash, Facts on File, 2003
- Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom, Oxford University Press, 1993
Selected Grants and Awards
- Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction and Mentoring, 2008
- Miami University’s Benjamin Harrison Medallion “for Outstanding Contributions to Education of the Nation,” 2007
Work in Progress
Dr. Winkler is currently revising his section of The American People for the forthcoming 7th concise edition. He is also revising The Cold War: A History in Documents.
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