On Monday evening at 7:30 pm in the Gathering Room, James Goodman Ph. D. will present a lecture, “Strained Bedfellows: Why History and Politics Just Can’t Get Along”.
In his lecture Prof. Goodman, son-in-law of Bill McFeely, will discuss the complicated relationship between history and politics, using examples from several controversies and debates that have been in the news in the past few years, including immigration, gun control, sexual harassment, confederate monuments and race relations more generally.
History and politics are not the same thing, and there are good reasons to think about the differences between them as well as the overlaps and connections.
A professor of history at Rutgers University, Jim Goodman is the author of three books: Stories of Scottsboro (Pulitzer Prize finalist, 1995); Blackout, and But Where Is the Lamb? Imagining the Story of Abraham and Isaac. He also serves as the U.S. editor of the quarterly journal Rethinking History.