University of Galway History Seminar: Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence

Professor Kevin Boyle 

(Northwestern University)

Blood Ties: An Intimate History of Early Twentieth Century American Political Violence 

Biography

Kevin Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University. He is the author, most recently, of The Shattering: America in the 1960s (W. W. Norton & Co., 2021), a history of that period’s conflicts over race, sex, and war. His previous book, Arc of Justice, won the National Book Award for non-fiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is also the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1948-1968 and co-author of Muddy Boots and Ragged Aprons. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, and other newspapers and magazines. 

Registration

This talk will be delivered online, via Zoom. Register here for the link: https://forms.office.com/r/QAxBFe9XFX

The seminar will also be livestreamed in Room 1001, Hardiman Research Building (Bridge Seminar Room).

This talk is part of the University of Galway History Research Seminar series.

For further details, contact Dr Kevin O’Sullivan kevin.k.osullivan@universityofgalway.ie

Image: Jasper Johns, ‘Flags 1’ (1973); Museum of Modern Art, New York