Not Even Past
New Perspectives on American History
THOMAS SUGRUE, in conversation with Sarah Barringer Gordon, discusses his book Sweet Land of Liberty:The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.
Thomas Sugrue, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor of History, is a specialist in 20th-century American politics, urban history, civil rights and race. The Origins of the Urban Crisis, his first book, was showered with awards. His most recent work is Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North. He is currently at work on a history of real estate in America from European conquest to the foreclosure crisis.
Sarah Barringer Gordon is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History. She is a widely recognized scholar and commentator on religion in American public life and the law of church and state. Her expertise encompasses American constitutional history, religion and religious experience, westward expansion and property. Her first book is The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America, and she is at work on another about religion and law in the 20th century.
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