https://www.kathleenbelew.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2017-08-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/t/598b5f1de6f2e1c68661ad61/1439412791342/ Courses - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (under contract, Harvard University Press) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/55cbb1c9e4b0a181217c0b4f/55cbb21ee4b0925cd7775ec5/1439412791342/ Courses - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (under contract, Harvard University Press) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502294758068-6ZFRVPO6LQ0C7GNACRZU/march+comp.jpg Courses - History of the Present Undergraduate lecture, University of Chicago Signature Course This course takes a reverse approach to the study of history, defining issues relevant to the current moment—some determined by the students—and exploring the long stories required to understand the present. We might examine the election of 2016, social movements, climate change, debt, gun ownership, statelessness, and other issues. Each topic will occupy one week of the class. Students will learn historical thinking skills, critical reading, and argumentation, and will complete a final assignment geared towards providing historical context for an ongoing debate in the public sphere. This lecture course is an elective open to non-majors and to first- and second-year students, although upper-year students and History majors and minors are welcome. No previous History coursework is required. Image: Women's March on Washington, 2017 (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186575740-TLNCH6J69MJNQHLNV55P/PTSD+Poster+One.jpg Courses - Histories of Violence in the United States Advanced undergraduate lecture How does violence change life stories and national narratives? How can a nation remember and retell obscured histories of violence, reconcile past violence, and resist future violence? What does it mean that lynching emerged in the same historical moment as the Bill of Rights, and that certain kinds of violence have been central to American identity? The story of the United States is built on the inclusion or omission of violence: from the genocide of Native Americans to slavery to imperial conquest, from “private” pain of women to the nationalized pain of soldiers. This course brings violence to the center of U.S. history. Moving from Early America to the present, we will discuss these overlapping stories in terms of their visibility and invisibility, addressing questions of representation and the haunting function of traumatic experience. Following an emerging subfield of scholarship in Histories of Violence, this course examines narrative, archival, and political issues around studying, teaching, and writing such stories. Image: Julia Watson, final project for Histories of Violence in the United States (2013, Northwestern University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502294315613-ACF8X2OS6MS9RRG8LR4N/Special_response_vehicle_from_Homeland_Security_during_OSI_Det._340%27s_law_enforcement_day.jpg Courses - Rise of the Carceral State Graduate Colloquium This course explores the historical roots and late-twentieth century rise of mass incarceration in the United States. We will focus on three major themes: the emergence of the prison-industrial complex, histories of racialized prison labor, and local economies around prisons; racialized and militarized policing, mandatory mimums, and the War on Drugs; and militarism more broadly in American life and culture. Within these historical trajectories, we will focus on mass incarceration as continuity and change with earlier moments; race and gender as rendered through the carceral state; and how the state itself has shifted to promote and accommodate militarized policing and large numbers of incarcerated people. Image: Paramilitary police unit (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502293795579-8TS5WBQRCEK9OZGU8YOP/1133171.jpg Courses - America in World Civilization, III: The Twentieth Century Civilization Core What were the boundaries, limits, and possibilities of America as a cultural community in the twentieth century? What conditions have shaped inclusion and exclusion from the category “American”? Who has claimed rights, citizenship, and protection, and under what conditions? What core questions have constituted America and its denizens? This quarter focuses on multiple definitions of Americanism and social order in a multicultural society; Taylorism and social engineering; culture in the shadow of war; the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender; the rise of new social movements; the emergence of the carceral state and militarization of civil space; and the role of climate change and the apocalyptic in shaping imagined futures. Image: U.S. Coast Guard surveys damage after Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502293658465-GZT7GE1HVSJYYEFQ3O0E/00757u.jpg Courses - American Conservatism, 1945 to the present Graduate Colloquium This course explores the burgeoning historiography of American conservatism, tracing the movement from its grassroots origins after World War II to its institutionalization and militarization in the Reagan era to the rise of evangelical Christianity and Tea Party politics. We will focus on the role of women in the movement, the ideological alliances in its founding, and the roles of particular conservative groups in the movement's history. This course will move both chronologically and thematically to explore fundamental questions about activism and radicalization, grassroots and top-down ideologies, and the impact of conservative thought and institutions upon American society and state in the late twentieth century. Image: Phyllis Schlafly, 1977 (Library of Congress, ds 00757 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00757) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186516284-WFGGUNKXXZCOA3W7FEQ1/16225v.jpg Courses - The American Vigilante Third-Year Colloquium for History Majors From the Regulators to Rambo, the vigilante has played a leading role in the history and culture of the United States. This course traces a long history of the American Vigilante and episodes of vigilante violence, from early America to the present. We will focus on the questions central to this history: what is the difference between violence to enslave and violence to set free? What is the relationship between the vigilante and the state, and in what ways has the state benefitted from vigilantism? Where can we draw distinctions between vigilantism, terrorism, and rebellion? How has the vigilante contributed to nation-building? This class examines a wide variety of vigilante violence, including settler violence against Native Americans, the lynching of people of color, urban mob violence, and paramilitarism. Image: Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C. (Photograph, 1926)--Library of Congress, LC-DIG-npcc-16225 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186443145-LUROA4XAPYGEC930AE1H/image-asset.jpeg Courses - United States History, Reconstruction to the Present Survey This course presents an overview of U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present, focusing on two ideas of the nation: one America that aspired to fulfill the grand promise of democracy, sovereignty, and freedom, and one America defined by racial, gender, class, and sexual inequality, as well as the construction of empire through interventions around the world. We will structure our discussion around the interplay between these two ideas. Focusing on major historical developments, we will examine the lived experiences of many different kinds of people over the course of the twentieth century. This course will cover Reconstruction and lynching, the expansion of U.S.-held territories, the construction and policing of the U.S.-Mexico border, five American wars, a host of social movements, and many other historical antecedents to current-day political debates. We will contrast histories of nation-building with revolutionary opposition; capitalism with socialist protest; immigration with vigilantism; and leftist social movements with the ascendance of conservatism. As we explore American history, students will learn and hone historical thinking skills that will benefit them in any later pursuit, including facility with historical narrative, formal writing and argumentation, and the ability to critically engage primary sources. Image: John Gast, American Progress (Chromolithograph, 1873)--Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-668 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/55cbb1c9e4b0a181217c0b4f/56148949e4b06b28283601a9/1444227072484/ Courses https://www.kathleenbelew.com/events daily 0.75 2020-11-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1605101871944-7WO4LF463B0R2HO7WP94/image-asset.png Events Gallery For speaking engagements, Kathleen Belew is exclusively represented by The Lavin Agency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1605101871944-7WO4LF463B0R2HO7WP94/image-asset.png Events Gallery For speaking engagements, Kathleen Belew is exclusively represented by The Lavin Agency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1568838109155-XJTOWR3IR74G1VBJTLJ3/Screen+Shot+2019-09-18+at+1.20.50+PM.png Events Gallery - Westminster Town Hall Forum, Minneapolis Tuesday, September 24, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1568838449571-Y9PLT10UA6XZ3EW878BZ/IMG_1936.jpg Events Gallery - Powell's Books, Portland Monday, August 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m. Powell’s City of Books, 1005 W. Burnside St., Portland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1557261190812-6DNILRBFOD0XBJIYR819/TIS+March+1+2019+Poster+%28Saved+2+8+19%29.jpg Events Gallery - The Interview Show at the Hideout With Mark Bazer Friday, March 1, 2019, Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1579717888752-MR886L5FCSJNKNGVAP9R/image-asset.jpeg Events Gallery - Yale University Democracy in America Series Thursday, January 30, 2020 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm Sprague Memorial Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1568758344517-GPEIB48V5BQ6GUOSBUQ3/9733883414_f1b664b0bf_z.jpg Events Gallery - U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform Joint National Security and Civil Rights Civil Liberties Subcommittee Hearing “Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part III): Addressing the Transnational Terrorist Threat” Date: Friday, September 20, 2019 - 9:00am Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515 Joint National Security and Civil Rights Civil Liberties Subcommittee Hearing “Confronting Violent White Supremacy (Part III): Addressing the Transnational Terrorist Threat” Subcommittees: National Security (116th Congress) 116th Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1547306436375-M3MTO5HCLWDVYI8R4IDL/elliott-bay-book-company.jpg Events Gallery - Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle May 24, 2019, 7 p.m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1557260997969-RJ7LKIG7M6Y3KI1KEKE2/CHID+logo_2019.jpg Events Gallery - Comparative History of Ideas: 40 More Years Keynote University of Washington, Husky Union Building 154 Thursday, May 23, 5:00 p.m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1557260822555-A7O7PI7VXHOBIKBPIHTH/women_and_children_wide-db538e236f7efe1fc279589c89e8c8cf36cbfa6e-s6-c30.jpg Events Gallery - Women and Children First Paperback Launch in Conversation with Mark Bazer of The Interview Show Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1551637503518-61SLS8CSGASABT8FMNMU/Books-and-Books-storefront-copy.jpg Events Gallery - Books and Books Coral Gables March 27, 2019, 6:30, in conversation with Jessie Kindig (Verso) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1543938532050-418IE2M4RP9149H11H64/50897fb2323d5.image.jpg Events Gallery - University of Arizona December 10, 2018, 4:00 p.m. 406a Chavez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1543938270120-BTW02WSD79N0ESZL1M2U/635835662320322915337418202_Winter_campus12_2082.JPG Events Gallery - University of Wisconsin, Madison December 6, 2018, 3:30-5, Curti Lounge 5233 Mosse Humanities Building https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1539023282406-5REO1SZHKEO46EJ7F7R5/proxy.duckduckgo.jpg Events Gallery - Public Talk The White Power Movement from Vietnam to Charlottesville University of Virginia, Corcoran Department of History October 25, 2018, 5-6:30 p.m., Gibson 211 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1539091740534-PDGDMLBODB56KIC4W5T9/Scherer-Logo-FINAL_maroon-01.png Events Gallery - Public Lecture Karla Scherer Center for the Study of American Culture University of Chicago October 18, 2018, 12:15–1:45 p.m Classics Building, Room 110 1010 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1537914172518-QEG9IVXZCCM4XZL5VU1U/crws_logo.png Events Gallery - Public Talk October 4, 2018 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1537394225089-YT1XQD2K9Q136JE6E1C3/Photo%2BApr%2B12%2C%2B12%2B34%2B33%2BPM.jpg Events Gallery - Pilsen Community Books 1102 w 18TH st. chicago, il 60608 Speaking and signing/THIRD THURSDAYS WITH WLPN & EYE 94 Thursday, September 20, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Listen to Dr. Belew on Lumpen Radio here https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1524840205564-2TT8WQ4LSWJKO4XHI0D9/McNallyJackson_Logo2altered2.jpg Events Gallery - McNally Jackson Independent Booksellers Speaking and book signing Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 7:00pm 52 Prince Street, New York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1518709336701-0R2U7TU3F10UPHDPXF25/TheWharf.jpg Events Gallery - Politics and Prose at the Wharf Talk/reading, followed by book signing Washington, D.C. Thursday, April 26, 2018, 7:00 PM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1518709347702-R014VQNN854JH8NZLJOU/1200px-City_Lights_Bookstore.jpg Events Gallery - City Lights Booksellers Talk/reading, followed by book signing San Francisco, California Thursday, April 12, 2018, 7:30 PM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1518709573215-S95V6CO3UKTXWVWKZWL9/semcoo-banner-image.jpg Events Gallery - Seminary Co-op Bookstore Talk: Bring the War Home Chicago, Illinois Monday, April 9, 2018, 6:00 PM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1518709346951-DZ9FUAPX2ZJY60YTAAUE/Tattered_Cover_logo.jpg Events Gallery - Tattered Cover Bookstore, Colfax Talk/reading, followed by book signing Denver, Colorado Thursday, April 5, 2018, 7:00 PM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1518709348290-CVI0OABDPILWN85G99EP/VaBookFest2018-Horiz-Dates-RGB.jpg Events Gallery - "Roots of White Nationalism and the Alt-Right" With Nancy MacLean (Democracy in Chains), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (How We Get Free), and Vegas Tenold (Everything You Love Will Burn) on the root causes and champions of the alt-right, and the wide-ranging impacts of the movement on American social equality and democracy. Saturday, March 24, 2018, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1537830362069-8AH2Y9QD2SVINWWWN9D2/crws_logo.png Events Gallery Public Talk | October 4 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1524840489266-KKR1SV7VMTUL5OLE30D1/9de46dac0f17de3145dc54d5965ad0e0.jpg Events Gallery Elliott Bay Book Company Speaking and book signing July 17, 7 p.m. Seattle, Washington https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/5a85aa320852295967efccb6/5c7c1c5724a694cb3c53dc19/1605101861543/ Events Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1537394165531-IXV4UK7FRA87Z9IYBNNK/Photo%2BApr%2B12%2C%2B12%2B34%2B33%2BPM.jpg Events Gallery https://www.kathleenbelew.com/new-index daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://www.kathleenbelew.com/awards daily 0.75 2017-08-09 https://www.kathleenbelew.com/opinion daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1568757430204-GNLM6HDPKJK75YZUA1EM/Screen+Shot+2019-09-17+at+2.56.33+PM.png Op-Ed - New York Times “The Right Way to Understand White Nationalist Terrorism,” August 4, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1542741040716-771JDGDJNZJ6GRLK6QXD/Screen+Shot+2018-11-20+at+1.09.23+PM.png Op-Ed - Daily Beast “Pittsburgh Shooting Was Straight Out of White Power Movement,” November 2, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1528749052311-T8YXYBD1MTRZHTO7SVP3/Screen+Shot+2018-06-11+at+3.30.00+PM.png Op-Ed - New York Times “The History of White Power,” April 18, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1605280221402-L4IYGQYVLDUEPSBPPKIU/Screen+Shot+2020-11-13+at+9.09.50+AM.png Op-Ed - Dissent “The Christchurch Massacre and the White Power Movement,” March 17, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1439482971307-JMWZYSV15J95IQ1FYQDB/image-asset.png Op-Ed - New York Times Oliver Munday for the New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1605101321974-6DNPHCBRBEBDGSB55JH3/Screen+Shot+2020-11-11+at+7.26.36+AM.png Op-Ed - New York Times “Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells,” October 2, 2020 https://www.kathleenbelew.com/privacy daily 0.75 2015-08-12 https://www.kathleenbelew.com/courses-1 daily 0.75 2022-03-25 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/55cbb1c9e4b0a181217c0b4f/55cbb21ee4b0925cd7775ec5/1439412791342/ Teaching - Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (under contract, Harvard University Press) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502294758068-6ZFRVPO6LQ0C7GNACRZU/march+comp.jpg Teaching - History of the Present Undergraduate lecture, University of Chicago Signature Course This course takes a reverse approach to the study of history, defining issues relevant to the current moment—some determined by the students—and exploring the long stories required to understand the present. We might examine the election of 2016, social movements, climate change, debt, gun ownership, statelessness, and other issues. Each topic will occupy one week of the class. Students will learn historical thinking skills, critical reading, and argumentation, and will complete a final assignment geared towards providing historical context for an ongoing debate in the public sphere. This lecture course is an elective open to non-majors and to first- and second-year students, although upper-year students and History majors and minors are welcome. No previous History coursework is required. Image: Women's March on Washington, 2017 (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186575740-TLNCH6J69MJNQHLNV55P/PTSD+Poster+One.jpg Teaching - Histories of Violence in the United States Advanced undergraduate lecture How does violence change life stories and national narratives? How can a nation remember and retell obscured histories of violence, reconcile past violence, and resist future violence? What does it mean that lynching emerged in the same historical moment as the Bill of Rights, and that certain kinds of violence have been central to American identity? The story of the United States is built on the inclusion or omission of violence: from the genocide of Native Americans to slavery to imperial conquest, from “private” pain of women to the nationalized pain of soldiers. This course brings violence to the center of U.S. history. Moving from Early America to the present, we will discuss these overlapping stories in terms of their visibility and invisibility, addressing questions of representation and the haunting function of traumatic experience. Following an emerging subfield of scholarship in Histories of Violence, this course examines narrative, archival, and political issues around studying, teaching, and writing such stories. Image: Julia Watson, final project for Histories of Violence in the United States (2013, Northwestern University) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502294315613-ACF8X2OS6MS9RRG8LR4N/Special_response_vehicle_from_Homeland_Security_during_OSI_Det._340%27s_law_enforcement_day.jpg Teaching - Rise of the Carceral State Graduate Colloquium This course explores the historical roots and late-twentieth century rise of mass incarceration in the United States. We will focus on three major themes: the emergence of the prison-industrial complex, histories of racialized prison labor, and local economies around prisons; racialized and militarized policing, mandatory mimums, and the War on Drugs; and militarism more broadly in American life and culture. Within these historical trajectories, we will focus on mass incarceration as continuity and change with earlier moments; race and gender as rendered through the carceral state; and how the state itself has shifted to promote and accommodate militarized policing and large numbers of incarcerated people. Image: Paramilitary police unit (Wikicommons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502293795579-8TS5WBQRCEK9OZGU8YOP/1133171.jpg Teaching - America in World Civilization, III: The Twentieth Century Civilization Core What were the boundaries, limits, and possibilities of America as a cultural community in the twentieth century? What conditions have shaped inclusion and exclusion from the category “American”? Who has claimed rights, citizenship, and protection, and under what conditions? What core questions have constituted America and its denizens? This quarter focuses on multiple definitions of Americanism and social order in a multicultural society; Taylorism and social engineering; culture in the shadow of war; the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender; the rise of new social movements; the emergence of the carceral state and militarization of civil space; and the role of climate change and the apocalyptic in shaping imagined futures. Image: U.S. Coast Guard surveys damage after Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Wikicommons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1502293658465-GZT7GE1HVSJYYEFQ3O0E/00757u.jpg Teaching - American Conservatism, 1945 to the present Graduate Colloquium This course explores the burgeoning historiography of American conservatism, tracing the movement from its grassroots origins after World War II to its institutionalization and militarization in the Reagan era to the rise of evangelical Christianity and Tea Party politics. We will focus on the role of women in the movement, the ideological alliances in its founding, and the roles of particular conservative groups in the movement's history. This course will move both chronologically and thematically to explore fundamental questions about activism and radicalization, grassroots and top-down ideologies, and the impact of conservative thought and institutions upon American society and state in the late twentieth century. Image: Phyllis Schlafly, 1977 (Library of Congress, ds 00757 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00757) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186516284-WFGGUNKXXZCOA3W7FEQ1/16225v.jpg Teaching - The American Vigilante Third-Year Colloquium for History Majors From the Regulators to Rambo, the vigilante has played a leading role in the history and culture of the United States. This course traces a long history of the American Vigilante and episodes of vigilante violence, from early America to the present. We will focus on the questions central to this history: what is the difference between violence to enslave and violence to set free? What is the relationship between the vigilante and the state, and in what ways has the state benefitted from vigilantism? Where can we draw distinctions between vigilantism, terrorism, and rebellion? How has the vigilante contributed to nation-building? This class examines a wide variety of vigilante violence, including settler violence against Native Americans, the lynching of people of color, urban mob violence, and paramilitarism. Image: Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D.C. (Photograph, 1926)--Library of Congress, LC-DIG-npcc-16225 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1444186443145-LUROA4XAPYGEC930AE1H/image-asset.jpeg Teaching - United States History, Reconstruction to the Present Survey This course presents an overview of U.S. history from Reconstruction to the present, focusing on two ideas of the nation: one America that aspired to fulfill the grand promise of democracy, sovereignty, and freedom, and one America defined by racial, gender, class, and sexual inequality, as well as the construction of empire through interventions around the world. We will structure our discussion around the interplay between these two ideas. Focusing on major historical developments, we will examine the lived experiences of many different kinds of people over the course of the twentieth century. This course will cover Reconstruction and lynching, the expansion of U.S.-held territories, the construction and policing of the U.S.-Mexico border, five American wars, a host of social movements, and many other historical antecedents to current-day political debates. We will contrast histories of nation-building with revolutionary opposition; capitalism with socialist protest; immigration with vigilantism; and leftist social movements with the ascendance of conservatism. As we explore American history, students will learn and hone historical thinking skills that will benefit them in any later pursuit, including facility with historical narrative, formal writing and argumentation, and the ability to critically engage primary sources. Image: John Gast, American Progress (Chromolithograph, 1873)--Library of Congress, LC-USZC4-668 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/55cbb1c9e4b0a181217c0b4f/56148949e4b06b28283601a9/1444227072484/ Teaching https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1605281797097-NBJAK4N4BCHZ3FA37CRG/20190212_BelewClass_1239.jpg Teaching - In her teaching, Dr. Belew explores the history of the present. Her courses, ranging from undergraduate lectures to doctoral seminars, focus on the recent history of the United States. Recent listings include a third-year seminar on 9/11, a doctoral seminar for historians, and courses in cultural history and the history of American conservatism. https://www.kathleenbelew.com/media daily 0.75 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1506304803006-7PJTPFDM6XEBD1I3KF4E/Screen+Shot+2017-09-24+at+8.58.55+PM.png Media https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1547305211227-RR8JU8CGRTVO85ANX2ZZ/Screen%2BShot%2B2019-01-12%2Bat%2B8.56.58%2BAM.jpg Media - Morning Joe Frontline Examines “New American Nazis,” November 19, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1524775031234-NSQ3WVW95WASCP9DWFF6/DTHVGlMw.jpg Media - Fresh Air How America's White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55cb9aece4b03134fe63a2ff/1528478535458-TAIVT1VNIXC7DF3RYM5P/Screen+Shot+2018-06-06+at+2.07.48+PM.png Media - 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