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Research Interests for Nancy MacLean

Research Interests:

Nancy MacLean’s scholarship focuses on the role of social movements in changing American culture and public policy, with particular focus on the twentieth century and on the roles of class, gender, race, and region in shaping these movements and determining their outcomes. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), was among the first historical studies to apply a gender analysis to men in order to help make sense of the phenomenon of reactionary populism. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Harvard University Press, 2006), examined the role of jobs issues in the African American and Mexican American civil rights movements and the women’s movement, and exposed the enduring conservative opposition to the quest to create inclusive workplaces. Since then, she has produced two books for course use: The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009) and, with Donald T. Critchlow, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). She is currently completing Chaining Leviathan (forthcoming with Viking/Penguin, Jan. 2017). An award-winning teacher, she offers courses on post-1945 America, social movements, and public policy history. She is the President of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA)

Representative Publications
  1. MACLEAN, N, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006), Havard University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation [catalog.php]
  2. MACLEAN, N, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (1994), Oxford University Press [available here]
  3. MACLEAN, N, The American Women’s Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (2008), Bedford/St. Martins [newcatalog.aspx]
  4. Critchlow, DT; MacLean, N, Debating the American Conservative Movement: 1945 to the Present (2009), Rowman & Littlefield [CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0742548236]

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