There was a time in our history -
in the two decades after World
War II - when our government
and our citizens worked together
to build a great nation. How and
why that happened, and how and
why that partnership frayed from
the 1970s to the present - and the
consequences of that break - will
be the focus of my presentation.
Dr. David Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, a position he has held since 1982. A native of Memphis, he grew up in Brooklyn and received his degrees at the University of Maryland.
He is the author or editor of sixteen books including two, Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers (1982) and Black, White, and Southern (1991), nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in history. His most recently published books are America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation (2011), Still Fighting the Civil War (2013), and The Gifted Generation: When Government Was Good (2017). Goldfield is also the Editor of the Journal of Urban History, and serves as Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians, as an Academic Specialist for the U.S. State Department, and as an expert witness in voting rights cases.
He is Past President of the Southern Historical Association (2012-2013). Dr. Goldfield serves on the Advisory Board of the human rights organization, the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, and on the Board of the North Carolina Civil War and Reconstruction History Center.
His hobbies include reading southern novels, watching baseball, and listening to the music of Gustav Mahler and Buddy Holly.
