Cohen & DeLong, Concrete Economics (2016)

Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong.
Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy.
Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.

Book information: Publisher; Book Info at Bradford-DeLong.com; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Books at Brad DeLong's blog "Grasping Reality..."

Book excerpt: Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong, "Why Hamilton — Not Jefferson — Is the Father of the American Economy," Fortune, 16 February 2016.

Cohen and DeLong are also the authors of:
The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money, New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2010.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.com, paperback; Book Info at DeLong's blog.]
My post on The End of Influence is here.

Author information: J. Bradford DeLong

• J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
• J. Bradford DeLong (b. 1960), Wikipedia.
• Grasping Reality . . ., Brad DeLong's blog.
• Brad DeLong, Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
• J. Bradford DeLong, Project Syndicate.
  A recent article at Project Syndicate:
  Debunking America’s Populist Narrative, 31 March 2016.
  This article seems to me a less than adequate defense for free trade/globalization and its effects on the U.S. economy. Check the comments to this article; even Jeffrey D. Sachs criticizes it.
• The Economists' Voice, Edited by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Aaron S. Edlin, and J. Bradford DeLong.

Lectures and Interviews: J. Bradford DeLong

• J. Bradford DeLong and Harry Kreisler, "Economics, Politics and Public Discourse," Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 05 October 2007.
  J. Bradford DeLong interview at the Conversations with History website.
• J. Bradford DeLong, "Macroeconomic Policy: When Bubbles Matter," 24th Annual Henry George Lecture, Economics and Finance Department, The University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, 22 September 2009.
  Henry George Program, Economics and Finance Department, The University of Scranton.
• Brad DeLong and Oscar Landerretche, "The Politics of Inequality," Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 15 October 2012.
  YouTube playlist for the lecture series "Inequality: A Dialogue for the Americas."
• J. Bradford DeLong, "The Great Depression and the Great Recession in the North Atlantic," Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California, 04 May 2015.
• Jeffrey Vitter, Tim Kane, Brad DeLong, Donna Ginther, "Inequality, Prosperity, Growth, and Well-Being in America," Kansas Economic Policy Conference Luncheon Panel, University of Kansas, 22 October 2015.

You can find more talks by DeLong on YouTube. I limited this list to those that seem more pertinent to the U.S. economy.

Author information: Stephen S. Cohen

• Stephen S. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley.
• The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.
• Stephen S. Cohen and Harry Kreisler, "What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money," Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 14 January 2010.
  Stephen S. Cohen interview at the Conversations with History website.
• Stephen S. Cohen, Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969; Harvard University Press, 1969; University of California Press, 1977.
  [Google Books;
  Amazon.com.]

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Cohen & DeLong's thesis is that the U.S. government's economic policy, the political economy of the United States, changed around 1980. Before that time the government, and the national political culture generally, supported and implemented policies promoting the concrete, practical, pragmatic, non-ideological, economic development of the United States. After that time the government pursued the abstract, ideological policies of deregulation, free markets, and free trade, while ignoring the adverse consequences of those policies on the U.S. economy and society. Some practical deregulation began in the late 1970s which deregulated commercial passenger airline fares, trucking, and oil prices. However after 1980 the idea of deregulation was extended to financial services which promptly resulted in the Savings and loan crisis of the 1980s and the outsized growth of financial services as a fraction of the U.S. economy (see the work of Thomas Philippon). Continuing financial deregulation throughout the 1980s and 1990s directly contributed to the Financial crisis of 2007–08. Cohen & DeLong survey the economic history of the United States to show how pragmatic interventions by the government promoted the nation's economic development, from Alexander Hamilton to 19th century railroads, land grant colleges, homesteading for settlement of territories for agricultural development, to 20th century policies including New Deal era construction of dams and post offices, Eisenhower era construction of interstate highways, and, often military-related, technology development (for example, communications and electronics technologies at Bell Labs and the military aviation spinoff of commercial aircraft at Boeing). The economic development ideas formerly used by the U.S. have been practiced in East Asia with great success; Cohen & DeLong discuss the cases of Japan and China; the brevity of their book prevents them from discussing the similar successes of (South) Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and other nations. These are large topics briefly summarized by Cohen & DeLong in Concrete Economics, so I list some references from the book below.

Some references in Concrete Economics:

Introduction
• Thomas Philippon, Stern School of Business, New York University.
  Cohen & DeLong say that Thomas Philippon is "the economist who has done the most to count and track the hypertrophy of the American finance sector."
  
  • Thomas Philippon, "Finance versus Wal-Mart: Why Are Financial Services So Expensive," in Rethinking the Financial Crisis (pages 235-246), edited by Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Loh and Robert M. Solow. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef, "Wages and Human Capital in the U.S. Financial Industry: 1909-2006," Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2012.
  • Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef, "An International Look at the Growth of Modern Finance," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 27, Number 2, Spring 2013.
  • Thomas Philippon, "Has the US Finance Industry Become Less Efficient?" American Economic Review, April 2015.
• Ralph E. Gomory and William J. Baumol, Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Chapter 1
• John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783, London: Century Hutchinson, 1989; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990; Abingdon: Routledge, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.UK.]
• Alexander Hamilton, "Report to the House of Representatives on Manufactures," 05 December 1791.
  • Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757 – 1804), Wikipedia.
  • Report on Manufactures, Wikipedia.
  • Report on Manufactures, 1913 (Google Books).
  • John C. Hamilton, editor. The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 3. New York: John F. Trow, Printer, 1850.
    [Archive.org.]
    This volume contains Hamilton's reports: on "Public Credit" (pages 1-46); on "Operations of the Act Laying Duties on Imports" (pages 54-80); on a "National Bank" (pages 106-146); "On The Establishment of a Mint" (pages 149-188); and on "Manufactures" (pages 192-284).
  • Alexander Hamilton, Writings, Edited by Joanne B. Freeman, No. 129, Library of America Series, New York: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., 2001.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Paul Bairoch, Economics and World History: Myths and Paradoxes, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Chapter 2
• Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, New York: Oxford University Press, 1970, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Chapter 3
• Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, New York: The Free Press, 1962; second edition, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Steven Solomon, Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jon Gertner, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, New York: Penguin Press, 2012; Penguin Books, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Vernon W. Ruttan, Is War Necessary for Economic Growth?: Military Procurement and Technology Development, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• John A. Alic and others, Beyond Spinoff: Military and Commercial Technologies in a Changing World, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Chapter 4
• James Fallows, Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political System, New York: Pantheon Books, 1994; New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Carlos F. Diaz Alejandro, Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic, Economic Growth Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1970.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Barry Naughton, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
Chapter 5
• George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller, Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception, Princeton University Press, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Hyman Minsky, Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Yale University Press, 1986; McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Simon Johnson, "The Quiet Coup," The Atlantic, May 2009.
• William K. Black, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005; updated edition, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Some related books not mentioned in Concrete Economics:

• Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Cohen & DeLong cite an older work by Naughton but this newer book may be of greater interest to readers looking for an introductory survey on China's economic growth.
• Ha-Joon Chang, Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective, London: Anthem Press, 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ha-Joon Chang, The East Asian Development Experience: The Miracle, the Crisis and the Future, London: Zed Books, 2007.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism, London: Random House Business Books, 2007; New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Gerald F. Davis, Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America, Oxford University Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  Davis offers an interpretation of the effects of growth of the financial sector on U.S. society, its effects on American culture. More solid and more instructive, in my opinion, are his chapters on the history of corporations (Chapter 3) and on the history of banking (Chapter 4) in the U.S. during the 20th century.
  My post on Managed by the Markets is here.
• Judith Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Pivotal Decade is here.
• Jeff Madrick, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House LLC), 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Age of Greed is here.
  Madrick's Age of Greed is a more detailed history of the economic policies that allowed the growth of the financial sector in the U.S. economy since the 1970s (compared to the brief treatment of that history in Concrete Economics).
• Jeff Madrick, Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Penguin Random House LLC), 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  In Seven Bad Ideas Madrick also reviews the economic history of the United States in which the federal government played a significant role in promoting the economic development of the country from its beginnings in various ways appropriate to each historical/technological epoch, contrary to what free market ideologues and the followers of Milton Friedman would tell you.
  
• From the document "The British Sociological Association and The Guardian: Sociologists on the causes of the financial crisis," British Sociological Association, 2012, I found this item and its description, which sounds similar to Cohen & DeLong's thesis in Concrete Economics:
  
  Jordan, Bill. (2010) What’s Wrong with Social Policy and How to Fix it, Polity Press. 
[“This books argues that the financial crash of 2008-9 has exposed the disastrous consequences of applying economic theory to the collective life of societies. In seeking to manage social relationships through incentives for individual gain, market-like menus of choices and business-style sets of interlocking contracts, the model adopted by the governments of the UK and USA has subverted the basis for social policy in mutuality and membership.” “Breaks important new theoretical ground for a social and community-nurturing vision in the new economic era.”]
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Book Reviews and other essays:

• James Fallows, "How America Can Rise Again," The Atlantic, January/February 2010.
• Darren Ingram, "Concrete Economics," Autamme blog, 22 January 2016.
• Edward Luce, "Is robust American growth a thing of the past?," Financial Times, 19 February 2016.
  Brad DeLong, "Ed Luce Says Some Very Nice Things About Steve Cohen's and My Forthcoming Concrete Economics," Grasping Reality ... blog, 21 February 2016.
• Justin Fox, "The U.S. Could Use a New Economic Strategy," BloombergView.com, 01 March 2016.
• Jen Werner, "For Economist J. Bradford DeLong, Government Is a Growth Engine," Institutional Investor, 02 March 2016.
• Brenda Jubin, "Cohen and DeLong, Concrete Economics," Reading the Markets blog, 02 March 2016.
• Simon Constable, "Alexander Hamilton As U.S. Economic Architect," Forbes, 15 March 2016.
  The reviewer Simon Constable is ideologically determined to misunderstand Cohen & DeLong's book and he misrepresents it.
• John Mason, "Where Did U.S. Economic Policy Go Wrong? The 1980s," TheStreet, 21 March 2016.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Economic history of the United States.
• Economy of the United States.
• Economic history of Japan.
• Economic history of China (1949–present).

Cohen & DeLong, The End of Influence (2010)

Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong.
The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money.
New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2010.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.com, paperback; Book Info at DeLong's blog.

A footnote on page 2 states: "Notes and references to this book are to be found online at www.cohen-delong-influence.com." The last time I checked, the website at www.cohen-delong-influence.com does not work. This illustrates the obvious failure of separating notes and references from the physical book, a very unfortunate practice recently adopted by some book publishers. Fortunately one of the authors (DeLong) is currently an active blogger and has provided the notes and references at his own blog: Back Matter. Notes in reverse page order are HERE. What will become of this 50 years from now?

Book excerpt: Brad DeLong and Stephen Cohen, "The End of Influence," Foreign Policy, 23 December 2009.

Cohen and DeLong are also the authors of:
Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy, Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
[Publisher; Book Info at Bradford-DeLong.com; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
My post on Concrete Economics is here.

Author information: Stephen S. Cohen

• Stephen S. Cohen, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley.
• The Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.
• Stephen S. Cohen and Harry Kreisler, "What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money," Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 14 January 2010.
  Stephen S. Cohen interview at the Conversations with History website.
• Stephen S. Cohen, Modern Capitalist Planning: The French Model, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969; Harvard University Press, 1969; University of California Press, 1977.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Author information: J. Bradford DeLong

• J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
• J. Bradford DeLong (b. 1960), Wikipedia.
• Grasping Reality . . ., Brad DeLong's blog.
• Brad DeLong, Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
• J. Bradford DeLong, Project Syndicate.
• J. Bradford DeLong and Harry Kreisler, "Economics, Politics and Public Discourse," Conversations with History, University of California, Berkeley, 05 October 2007.
  J. Bradford DeLong interview at the Conversations with History website.

Book Reviews:

• DeLong has provided Book Review excerpts and links here. See also the page titled Comments.
• James Fallows, "How America Can Rise Again," The Atlantic, January/February 2010.
  Not a book review. But mentions The End of Influence among many other books.
• Matthew Yglesias, "The End of Influence," Think Progress, 05 January 2010.
• Reihan Salam, "The Revenge of Mercantilism," Forbes, 10 January 2010.
• Reihan Salam, "Cohen and DeLong’s The End of Influence," National Review Online, 11 January 2010.
• James Kwak, "The Wasted Opportunity," The Baseline Scenario, 30 January 2010.
• Bruce Bartlett, "Cracks In America's Armor," Forbes, 03 February 2010.
• Bruce Bartlett, "The Real Importance of Steve Cohen and Brad DeLong's New Book," stan collender's capital gains and games, 03 February 2010.
• Richard Pachter, "Looking Out at the New Power Brokers," The Cutting Edge, 08 February 2010.
• Greg Weeks, "Cohen and DeLong's The End of Influence," Two Weeks Notice: A Latin American Politics Blog, 21 February 2010.
• Heather Stewart, "The credit crunch has shattered America's 'neoliberal dream'," The Guardian, 22 February 2010.
• RYviewpoint, "Stephen S. Cohen & J. Bradford DeLong's The End of Influence: What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money," RYviewpoint, 10 July 2010.
• Justin Tapp, "Book Review (#24 of 2011) The End of Influence," Value Added, 30 July 2011.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• List of countries by GDP.
• Economy of China.
• Economy of the United States.
• Economy of India.
• Economy of Japan.
• Economy of Germany.
• Economy of Russia.
• Economy of Brazil.
• Economy of Indonesia.
• Economy of France.
• Economy of the United Kingdom.
• Economy of Mexico.
• Economy of Italy.
• Economy of South Korea.
• Economy of Saudi Arabia.
• Economy of Canada.
• Economy of Spain.
• Economy of Turkey.
• Economy of Iran.
• Economy of Australia.
• Economy of Taiwan.
• Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Economic history of the United States: Late 20th century.

Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941 (1992)

Michael E. Parrish.
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Anxious Decades is the second volume in a series, The Norton Twentieth Century America Series, published by W. W. Norton & Company:

• Cooper, Pivotal Decades: The United States, 1900-1920.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Pivotal Decades is here.
• Parrish, Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression, 1920-1941.
• Diggins, The Proud Decades: America in War and Peace, 1941-1960.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on The Proud Decades is here.
• Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Years of Discord is here.

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Author Information:

• Michael Parrish, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, University of California, San Diego.

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Video: Lectures in History, C-SPAN

(Lectures addressing the period 1920-1941.)

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### Shauna Devine and Neville Thompson, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidency," University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 16 March 2017.

• Shauna Devine, Department of History, University of Western Ontario.
• J. Neville Thompson, Emeriti Professors, Department of History, University of Western Ontario.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.

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### Carl Abrams, "Culture During the Great Depression," Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina, 16 March 2016.

• Carl Abrams, Department of History, Bob Jones University.
• Douglas Carl Abrams. Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Douglas Carl Abrams. Selling the Old-Time Religion: American Fundamentalists and Mass Culture, 1920-1940. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Douglas Carl Abrams. Old-Time Religion Embracing Modernist Culture: American Fundamentalism between the Wars. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45).
• Great Depression in the United States.
• New Deal.
• Golden Age of Hollywood.

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### Steve Voguit, "President Roosevelt and the New Deal," Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, 04 March 2015.

• Steve Voguit, Flagler College.

Book Mentioned?

• Alan Brinkley. The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People, Eighth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2015.
  [Amazon.com.]
• Alan Brinkley. American History: Connecting with the Past, Fifteenth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill Education, 2014.
  [Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45).
• Economic history of the United States: Early 20th century.
• Roaring Twenties.
• Presidency of Herbert Hoover, March 1929 - March 1933.
• Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• Great Depression in the United States.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• United States presidential election, 1932.
• Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• New Deal.

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### Sara Marcketti, "Fashion Piracy in the 1930s," Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 19 November 2014.

• Sara Marcketti, Department of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management, Iowa State University.
• Sara Marcketti, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Iowa State University.
• Phyllis G. Tortora and Sara B. Marcketti. Survey of Historic Costume, Sixth Edition. New York: Fairchild Books (Bloomsbury Publishing, Inc.), 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Fashion Originators' Guild of America v. FTC (1941).

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### Charles J. Holden, "Post-World War I and Modernism," St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland, 17 November 2014.

• Charles J. Holden, Department of History, St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Book:

• Jennifer D. Keene. Doughboys, the Great War, and the Remaking of America. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Modernism.
• Literary modernism.
• Armory Show, February - March, 1913.
• Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies").
• First Red Scare, 1919-1920.
• Race riots of 1919: Red Summer (1919); Chicago; Omaha; Elaine, Arkansas.
• Palmer Raids, November 1919 and January 1920.

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### Jonathan Sarna, "Henry Ford's Publications on Jews," Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 03 November 2014.

• Jonathan D. Sarna, Brandeis University.
• Jonathan Sarna (b.1955), Wikipedia.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Henry Ford (1863–1947).
• Henry Ford: The Dearborn Independent and antisemitism.
• The Dearborn Independent, published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927.

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### Sarah Igo, "Modernizing the Home and Workplace," Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 30 September 2014.

• Sarah Igo, Department of History, Vanderbilt University.
• Sarah Igo, Vanderbilt Law School.

Books Mentioned:

• Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945). Sister Carrie. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Walter Lippmann (1889–1974). Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856–1915). The Principles of Scientific Management. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1911.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Christine Frederick (1883–1970). The New Housekeeping: Efficiency Studies in Home Management. Curtis Publishing Co., 1912. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• Christine Frederick (1883–1970). Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home. Chicago: American School of Home Economics, 1919.
  [Archive.org; Google Books.]
• John B. Watson (1878–1958). Psychological Care of Infant and Child. New York: W. W. Norton, 1928.
  [Google Books.]
• David A. Hollinger and Charles Capper, editors. The American Intellectual Tradition, Volume II: 1865 to the Present, seventh edition. Oxford University Press, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Herbert Croly (1869–1930).
• Randolph Bourne (1886–1918).

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### Ian Isherwood, "Experiences of Soldiers in World War I," Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 22 April 2014.

• Ian Andrew Isherwood, Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College.
  Ian Andrew Isherwood, History, Gettysburg College.

Books Mentioned:

• Robert Graves (1895-1985). Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography, 1929; second edition, 1958.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), "Soldier's Home," 1925.
  "Soldier's Home" is included in the collection In Our Time.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charles Edmonds, pseudonym of Charles Carrington (1897-1990). A Subaltern's War. 1929.
  (A Subaltern's War contains the "Essay on Militarism".)
  [Google Books.]
• Charles Carrington, Soldier from the Wars Returning, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1965. Pen & Sword Books, 2015.
  [Publisher UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.UK.]

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### David Hancock, "Edward Bernays and Corporate Public Relations," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 05 December 2013.

• David J. Hancock, Department of History, University of Michigan.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Edward Bernays (1891−1995).
• Committee on Public Information.
• Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931).
• Wilfred Trotter (1872–1939).
• Walter Lippmann (1889–1974).

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### David Canton, "African Americans in the 1920s," Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut, 08 October 2013.

• David Canton, Department of History, Connecticut College.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45).
• African-American history.
• Roaring Twenties.
• Negro league baseball.
• Madam C. J. Walker (1867–1919).
• Within Our Gates (1920), Oscar Micheaux (1884–1951).
• The Birth of a Nation (1915).
• Great Migration (African American).
• Madison Grant (1865–1937). The Passing of the Great Race (1916).
• Red Summer, 1919.
• J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972).
• Sacco and Vanzetti, commit crimes on 15 April 1920; finally executed on 22 August 1927.
• Claude McKay (1889–1948), "If We Must Die," 1919.
• New Negro.
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963).
• A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979).
• Marcus Garvey (1887–1940).
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
• The Crisis.
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963). Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (1920).
• The Messenger.
• Hubert Harrison (1883–1927).
• Grace Campbell (1883-1943).
• Negro World.
• Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA).
• Ida B. Wells (1862–1931).
• Harlem Renaissance.

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### James Madison, "Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America," Indiana University, Bloomington, 11 June 2013.

• James H. Madison, Emeriti Faculty, Department of History, Indiana University.
• James H. Madison, C-SPAN.
• James H. Madison. A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• James H. Madison. Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45): Ku Klux Klan.
• Ku Klux Klan: Second Klan: 1915–1944.

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### Sidney Milkis, "President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 24 April 2013.

• Sidney Milkis, Department of Politics, University of Virginia.
• Sidney Milkis, Miller Center (Miller Center of Public Affairs), University of Virginia.
• Sidney M. Milkis, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• New Deal.
• United States presidential election, 1936, FDR versus Alf Landon.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Four Freedoms, 06 January 1941.
• Norman Rockwell (1894–1978). Four Freedoms (1943).
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Bill of Rights, 11 January 1944.

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### Sally McMillen, "Polio Epidemic in the United States," Davidson College, North Carolina, 09 April 2013.

• Sally McMillen, History Department, Davidson College.

Book Discussed:

• David M. Oshinsky, Polio: An American Story, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Wikipedia; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Poliomyelitis.

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### Aaron O’Connell, "U.S. Marines in the Banana Wars," United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 26 March 2013.

• Aaron B. O'Connell, History Department, United States Naval Academy.
• Aaron B. O'Connell, C-SPAN.

Books Mentioned:

• Max Boot. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2002; revised edition, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Allan R. Millet. Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps. Free Press, 1991.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Hans Schmidt. Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary A. Renda. Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States Marine Corps: Banana Wars.
• Banana Wars.

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### Michael Kazin, "Culture and Society in the 1920s," Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 27 February 2013.

• Michael Kazin, Department of History, Georgetown University.
• Michael Kazin (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
• Michael Kazin, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45).
• Roaring Twenties.
• Immigration Act of 1924.
• Prohibition in the United States, 1920-1933.
  Volstead Act.
• Texas Guinan (1884–1933).
• Billy Sunday (1862–1935).
• Ku Klux Klan: Second Klan: 1915–1944.
• Al Capone (1899–1947).
• Pre-Code Hollywood.
• Charlie Chaplin.
• "Fatty" Arbuckle (1887–1933).
• Theda Bara (1885–1955).
• Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926).
• Scopes Trial, July 1925.
• H. L. Mencken (1880–1956).

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### Jeffrey McClurken, "Civil War History and the Film Gone With the Wind," University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, 04 October 2012.

• Jeffrey McClurken, Department of History and American Studies, University of Mary Washington.
• Jeffrey McClurken, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949).
• Gone With the Wind (novel, 1936).
• Gone With the Wind (film, 1939).

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### Stephen Ortiz, "The New Deal," State University of New York, Binghamton, 31 October 2011.

• Dr. Stephen R. Ortiz, History Department, State University of New York, Binghamton.
• Stephen R. Ortiz, C-SPAN.
• Stephen R. Ortiz Homepage.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Great Depression in the United States.
• Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• New Deal.
• Charles Coughlin (1891–1979).
• Huey Long (1893–1935).
• Francis Townsend (1867–1960).
• National Recovery Administration (NRA), declared unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 27 May 1935.
• Second New Deal, began 1935.
• Works Progress Administration (WPA).
• Social Security Act of 1935, enacted 14 August 1935.
• History of Social Security in the United States.
• National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), effective 06 July 1935.
• United States presidential election, 1936, FDR versus Alf Landon.
• Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937.
• Recession of 1937–38.
• Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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### Allan Lichtman, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency, Part 1," American University, Washington, D.C., 19 September 2011.

### Allan Lichtman, "Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency, Part 2," American University, Washington, D.C., 19 September 2011.

• Allan Lichtman, Department of History, American University.
• Allan Lichtman (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
• Allan J. Lichtman, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1918–45).
• Economic history of the United States: Early 20th century.
• Roaring Twenties.
• Presidency of Herbert Hoover, March 1929 - March 1933.
• Wall Street Crash of 1929.
• Economic history of the United States: From 1929 through World War II.
• Great Depression in the United States.
• Causes of the Great Depression.
• Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 1933 - April 1945.
• New Deal.
  
  • National Recovery Administration (NRA).
  • Public Works Administration (PWA).
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act, Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).
  • Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
• Second New Deal.
  
  • Social Security.
  • Works Progress Administration (WPA).
  • Rural Electrification Administration (REA).
  • National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), effective 06 July 1935.
    National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
• Charles Coughlin (1891–1979).
• Huey Long (1893–1935).
• United States presidential election, 1936, FDR versus Alf Landon.
• American Liberty League.
• James Farley (1888–1976).
• New Deal coalition.
  (African-Americans, Labor, the South, Catholics, urban white ethnic groups)
• Fourth Party System, 1896 - 1932.
• Fifth Party System, 1932 - late 20th Century.
• Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (the "court-packing plan").
• Recession of 1937–38.
• Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, established a national minimum wage.
• Neutrality Acts of 1930s.
• United States non-interventionism.
• Charles Lindbergh: Non-Interventionism and America First involvement (1902–1974).
• Wendell Willkie (1892–1944).
• United States presidential election, 1940, FDR versus Willkie.
• Lend-Lease.
• Arsenal of Democracy.

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### Allyson Hobbs, "The Great Migration," Stanford University, 10 May 2011.

• Allyson Hobbs, Department of History, Stanford University.

Books:

• Isabel Wilkerson. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration. New York: Random House, 2010.
  [Publisher;
  Author/Book website; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• James N. Gregory. The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Great Migration (African American).
• Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000).
  Search Google Images for Jacob Lawrence Migration Series.

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### Alan Kraut, "1920s American South," American University, Washington D.C., 04 October 2010.

• Alan Kraut, American University.
• Alan M. Kraut, C-SPAN.
• Alan M. Kraut, Distinguished Lectureship Program, Organization of American Historians.
• Alan M. Kraut, Migration Policy Institute, Washington D.C.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the Southern United States: Origins of the New South (1877–1913).
• History of the Southern United States: Rural South.
• Southern United States: Late 19th and 20th century—industrialization and Great Migration.
• Economic history of the United States: Early 20th century.
• Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, March 1913 - March 1921.
• Great Migration (African American).
• 1920s.
• Roaring Twenties.
• Largest cities in the United States by population by decade: 1920.
• James Buchanan Duke (1856–1925).
• Presidency of Warren G. Harding, March 1921 - August 1923.
• Emergency Tariff of 1921, 27 May 1921.
• History of agriculture in the United States: 1920s.
• Ku Klux Klan: Second Klan: 1915–1944.
• Presidency of Calvin Coolidge, August 1923 - March 1929.
• Scopes Trial, July 1925.

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The First World War: 100th Anniversary Lectures, Gresham College (2014-2015)

The First World War: 100th Anniversary Lectures, Gresham College, London, 2014-2015.

• Christopher Clark, "Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914," 29 September 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture One of Five.
  A very similar version of this talk was delivered as the 2014 Tans Lecture, Maastricht University, 12 November 2014: video; news article.
  The Maastricht University version has a question session while the Gresham College version does not.
  
  • Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, London: Allen Lane, 2012; New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Christopher Clark, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, London: Allen Lane, 2006; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006; London: Penguin Books, 2007.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, ebook; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Adam Tooze, The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931, New York: Viking (Penguin Group USA LLC), 2014. (First published as: The Deluge: The Great War and the Remaking of Global Order 1916-1931, London: Allen Lane, 2014.)
    [Publisher USA; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• David Stevenson, "The Military History of the First World War: An Overview and Analysis," 18 November 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Two of Five.
  
  • David Stevenson, 1914-1918: The History of the First World War, London: Allen Lane, 2004; London: Penguin Books, 2005; USA title: Cataclysm: The First World War As Political Tragedy, New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2004.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • David Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918, London: Penguin Group, 2011; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• David Reynolds, "The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914-2014," 8 December 2014.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Three of Five.
  
  • David Reynolds, The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, London: Simon & Schuster UK, 2013; The Long Shadow: The Legacies of the Great War in the Twentieth Century, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Richard J. Evans, "Politics and the First World War," 17 March 2015.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Four of Five.
• Mark Harrison, "War, Health and Medicine," 28 April 2015.
  Lecture webpage; Lecture Five of Five.

Another Gresham College lecture on this topic but not in this lecture series:

• Vernon Bogdanor, "Britain and 1914," Gresham College, London, 27 May 2014.
  Lecture webpage.

World War One: Panel Discussions

World War One: Panel Discussions

• John Milton Cooper, Margaret MacMillan, Jay Winter, "90 Years On: Legacy of the Great War," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 22 November 2007.
  
  • John M. Cooper (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Margaret MacMillan (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
  • Jay Winter (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
• Neil Faulkner, Annika Mombauer, Gary Sheffield, Dan Todman, Paul Lay, "The First World War: The Debate," The British Library, 17 February 2014.
  Debate video and info at Centenary News.
  Debate video and info at History Today.
  
  • World War I Centenary: Continuations and Beginnings, University of Oxford and Jisc.
  • Centenary News: First World War 1914-1918.
  • World War One, The British Library.
  • History Today.
  • Annika Mombauer, The Open University.
  • Annika Mombauer, "The debate on the origins of World War One," The British Library.
  • Annika Mombauer, "The Debate on the Origins of World War One," History in an Hour, 25 March 2014.
  • Annika Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, London: Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group), 2002; 2013.
    [Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Neil Faulkner, his website.
  • Neil Faulkner, No Glory: The Real History of the First World War, London: Stop the War Coalition, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk.]
  • Neil Faulkner, A Marxist History of the World: From Neanderthals to Neoliberals, London: Pluto Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Neil Faulkner, Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI, Yale University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Gary Sheffield, University of Wolverhampton.
  • Gary Sheffield, A Short History of the First World War, London: Oneworld Publications, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Dan Todman, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
  • Dan Todman, The Great War: Myth and Memory, Bloomsbury Academic, 2007.
    [Publisher, USA; Publisher, UK; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• John Charmley, Dominic Sandbrook, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Edward Lucas, "Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War," Intelligence Squared, 15 April 2014.
  Event webpage at Intelligence Squared.
  
  • John Charmley, Splendid Isolation?: Britain, the Balance of Power and the Origins of the First World War, London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 1999; Faber and Faber, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Max Hastings, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, London: William Collins (HarperCollinsPublishers), 2013; Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (Random House), 2013.
    [Publisher, UK; Publisher, USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914, New York: Random House, 2013; The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, London: Profile Books, 2013.
    [Publisher, USA; Publisher, UK; Google Books, USA edition; Google Books, UK edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
• Mac Owens, Michael Neiberg, Kate Epstein, John R. Schindler, "New Thinking on the Origins of World War I," Foreign Policy Research Institute, Washington D.C., 29 April 2014.
  Event webpage at FPRI.
  
  • Mackubin Thomas Owens, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor, The Institute of World Politics, Washington, D.C.
  • Mackubin "Mac" Thomas Owens (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
  • Orbis, FPRI's Journal of World Affairs, edited by Mackubin T. Owens.
  • Prof Michael Neiberg, The United States Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
  • Michael S. Neiberg: Author and Historian.
  • Kate Epstein, Department of History, Rutgers University - Camden, New Jersey.
  • The XX Committee blog by John R. Schindler.
• Christopher Clark, Dominic Lieven, Vojislav Pavlović, Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, "The Coming of World War I: What Kind of Failure?," The European Tragedy of 1914 and the Multipolar World of 2014: Lessons Learned, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Belgrade, 30 May 2014.
  CIRSD, Belgrade, Serbia.
  
  • Chris Clark (b. 1960), Wikipedia.
  • Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, London: Allen Lane, 2012; New York: HarperCollins, 2013.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Dominic Lieven (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • Dominic Lieven, Towards the Flame: Empire, War and the End of Tsarist Russia, London: Allen Lane (Penguin Books), 2015. USA title: The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution, New York: Viking (Penguin Random House), 2015.
    [Publisher UK; Publisher USA; Google Books, UK edition; Google Books, USA edition; Amazon.co.uk; Amazon.com.]
  • Vojislav Pavlović, Institute for Balkan Studies, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
  • Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, University College, Oxford.
• Bret Stephens, Shaukat Aziz, Patrick C.P. Ho, Tsuneo Nishida, Kevin Rudd, N. Hassan Wirajuda, "The Lessons of World War I and the 21st Century East Asia," The European Tragedy of 1914 and the Multipolar World of 2014: Lessons Learned, Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Belgrade, 31 May 2014.
  CIRSD, Belgrade, Serbia.
  • Margaret MacMillan, "The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War," The Brookings Essay, Brookings Institution, 14 December 2013.
  • Bret Stephens.
  • Shaukat Aziz.
  • Patrick C.P. Ho.
  • Tsuneo Nishida.
  • Kevin Rudd.
  • N. Hassan Wirajuda.
• Dalija Hasanbegovic, Mustafa Cerić, Ivo Banac, Michael Ignatieff, Adam Roberts, David Rodin, Joel H. Rosenthal, George Rupp, "Sarajevo Symposium: Panel Discussion," The Crisis of 1914 and What It Means for Us Today, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Sarajevo, 27 June 2014.
  Sarajevo Panel Discussion information with transcript, audio, video.
  Sarajevo Symposium Program, 27 June 2014.
• Stephen van Evera, Isabel Hull, Adam Tooze, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: The War of the Century," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 11 August 2014.
  The longer interview with Adam Tooze:
  WWI: Adam Tooze Reviews “The Deluge”, 17 August 2014.
• Kevin Birmingham, Howard Eiland, Eve Sorum, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: The Shock of the New," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 18 August 2014.
  
  • Literary modernism, Wikipedia.
  • James Joyce (1882–1941), Ulysses (1922).
  • Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939), Parade's End (1924-1928).
  • Virginia Woolf (1882–1941).
  • Kevin Birmingham, The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses, New York: The Penguin Press (Penguin Group USA LLC), 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kevin Birmingham, his website.
  • Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings, Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Harvard University Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Eve Sorum, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
• Virginia Eskin, Gil Rose, Stephan Pennington, Loren Schoenberg, Christopher Lydon, "WWI: Remaking Music," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 25 August 2014.
• Terje Rød-Larsen, Hanns Brattskar, John Baird, Edward Mortimer, Margaret MacMillan, "1814, 1914, 2014: Opening Presentation, Keynote and Discussion," Salzburg Global Seminar and International Peace Institute, Salzburg, Austria, 25-29 August 2014.
  Event information at Salzburg Global Seminar; YouTube playlist for the seminar 1814 1914 2014: Lessons from the Past Visions for the Future.
• John Lotherington, Richard Ned Lebow, Karel zu Schwarzenberg, Oliver Rathkolb, "The Sleepwalkers: Lessons from 1914," Salzburg Global Seminar and International Peace Institute, Salzburg, Austria, 25-29 August 2014.
  Event information at Salzburg Global Seminar; YouTube playlist for the seminar 1814 1914 2014: Lessons from the Past Visions for the Future.
• Max Larkin, Alan Taylor, Ann Thomas, Catharina Slautterback, "WWI, In 12 Photos," Radio Open Source, 90.9 WBUR, Boston, 29 August 2014.
  
  • Alan Taylor, "World War I in Photos: A 10-Part Series," The Atlantic, 2014.
  • Ann Thomas, The Great War: The Persuasive Power of Photography, National Gallery of Canada, 27 Jun 2014 - 16 Nov 2014.
  • Katherine Stauble, "Photography in the First World War: From Portraits to Propaganda," National Gallery of Canada Magazine, 16 July 2014.
  • Catharina Slautterback, "Over Here: World War I Posters from Around the World," The Boston Athenaeum, 10 September 2014 to 31 January 2015.
• Kamaal Haque, Craig Nation, Michael Neiberg, Karl Qualls, "World War I: The Causes," Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 08 September 2014.
  Event information at Clarke Forum, Dickinson College.
• Wendy Moffat, Dominique Laurent, David Commins, Crystal Moten, Douglas Mastriano, "World War I: The Consequences," Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, 09 September 2014.
  Event information at Clarke Forum, Dickinson College.
• Harold Evans, A. Scott Berg, Kati Marton, Sean McMeekin, Jane Harman, "World War One: What Were They Thinking? Lessons From the Catastrophe," The Wilson Center, Washington DC, 10 September 2014.
  Event webpage at The Wilson Center.
  
  • A. Scott Berg, Wilson, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons (Penguin Random House), 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold Evans, The American Century, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998.
    [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Harold Evans and others, They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators, New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Kati Marton, Paris: A Love Story, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sean McMeekin, July 1914: Countdown to War, New York: Basic Books, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Sean McMeekin, The Russian Origins of the First World War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2011.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• R. Nicholas Burns, Richard Rosecrance, Etel Solingen, Graham Allison, "Could World War I Happen Again?" Institute of Politics, Harvard University, 29 October 2014.
  Event webpage at the Institute of Politics.
  
  • R. Nicholas Burns, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • R. Nicholas Burns, Wikipedia.
  • Richard Rosecrance, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Richard Rosecrance, Wikipedia.
  • Richard N. Rosecrance and Steven E. Miller, editors, The Next Great War?: The Roots of World War I and the Risk of U.S.-China Conflict, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine.
  • Etel Solingen, Wikipedia.
  • Graham Allison, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Graham T. Allison, Wikipedia.
• "In Conversation: Jay Winter, John Milton Cooper and Michael Neiberg," National World War I Museum and Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri, 08 November 2014.
  National World War I Museum and Memorial; YouTube channel; 2014 Symposium Schedule (PDF).
  
  • John M. Cooper (b. 1940), Wikipedia.
  • Jay Winter (b. 1945), Wikipedia.
  • Michael S. Neiberg: Author and Historian.
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (1996), Wikipedia.
  • The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, PBS.
  • Search YouTube for The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century.
• Graham Allison, Peter Gourevitch, Charles S. Maier, Thomas Weber, Alison Frank Johnson, "The Great WWI Controversy: Who Was to Blame? A Panel Discussion on the Centennial," Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 24 November 2014.
  
  • Center for European Studies webpage.
  • Graham Allison, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
  • Graham T. Allison, Wikipedia.
  • Peter Gourevitch, School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego.
  • Peter Gourevitch, Wikipedia.
  • Charles S. Maier, Department of History, Harvard University.
  • Charles S. Maier, Wikipedia.
  • Thomas Weber, University of Aberdeen.
  • Thomas Weber, Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2010.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Derek Penslar and Steve J. Zipperstein, "WWI and the Jews," Jewish Community Center of San Francisco (JCCSF), 20 April 2015.
  
  • Derek J. Penslar, Jews and the Military: A History, Princeton University Press, 2013.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Derek Penslar (b. 1958), Wikipedia.
  • Derek J. Penslar, Department of History, University of Toronto.
  • Professor Derek J. Penslar, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford.
  • Steve Zipperstein, Department of History, Stanford University.
  • Steve Zipperstein, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University.
• Jaacob Dweck, Jay Lockenour, Paul Steege, "A Postshow Panel on World War One and Jews in Germany," Iron Age Theatre, Philadelphia, September 2015.