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Beth Bailey  

Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986)

bbailey@temple.edu

 
 

Office: 944 Gladfelter

Hours: Monday 2--4 (Spring semester)

Research and Teaching Interests:

20th Century U.S. Cultural and Social History;

History of Gender and Sexuality;

War and American Culture

Current Research:

Social and cultural history of recruiting the all volunteer army

   

Representative Publications

sex in the heartland The First Strange Place A People and a Nation
       
Columbia Guide A History of Our Time

A People and A Nation, co-author with Mary Beth Norton, et al., Houghton Mifflin Co., 7th edition, 2004 (chapters 25, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33); 8th edition, 2008..

America in the 70s, co-editor with David Farber, University Press of Kansas, 2004.

A History of Our Time, co-editor with William Chafe and Harvard Sitkoff, Oxford University Press, 6th edition, 2003; 7th edition, 2007.

The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s, co-author David Farber (with contributors), Columbia University Press, 2001; paperback March 2003.

Sex in the Heartland: Politics, Culture, and the Sexual Revolution, Harvard University Press, 1999; paperback 2002.

The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii, co-author David Farber, The Free Press, 1992; paperback, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 270 pp.

From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in 20th Century America,  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988; paperback 1989, 181 pp.

The Fifties Chronicle, lead author and consultant, with David Farber, International Publications, 2006.