"The Ups and Downs of Capitalism"

(Lucile Speer Memorial Lecture in collaboration with the Phi Beta Kappa Association of Montana)

8:00 PM Monday, March 16, 2015
Dennison Theatre

"How Europeans Became Curious "

3:10 PM Monday, March 16, 2015
Gallagher Business Building 123

Please join us for a seminar with Joyce O. Appleby. She graduated from Stanford University in 1950 and for some years afterward worked as a journalist. In 1966, she received her Ph.D. in history from the Claremont Graduate School. From 1967 to 1981, she taught at San Diego State University. She was appointed Professor of History at UCLA in 1981 and taught there until her retirement in 2001.

Professor Appleby’s research and teaching interests encompass early American history, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and France, historiography, economic history, and the history of women—to name only the most obvious fields of knowledge in which she is an authority. The range of her publications is astonishingly broad. They include:

• Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (winner of the 1978 Berkshire Prize)
• Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Jeffersonian Vision of the 1790s (based on the Phelps Lectures that she gave at New York University in 1982)
• Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (a collection of her essays published by Harvard University Press in 1992)
• Telling the Truth about History (1994, an explanation and a defense of the work that historians do, written with Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob)
• Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective (1995, ed. with others)
• Thomas Jefferson (2003, in the Henry Holt presidential series)
• The Relentless Revolution of Capitalism (2011)
• Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (2014)

Professor Appleby has had a career replete with the highest honors that the history profession can bestow. In 1977-78, she was a Fellow Commoner at Churchill College, Cambridge, England. In 1980, she was named to the Council of the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, acting as chair from 1983 to 1986. She also served on the editorial boards of the American Historical Review and the William and Mary Quarterly. She gave the Becker lectures at Cornell University in 1984. In 1990-91, she was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University and a fellow of Queen’s College. In 1991, she served as the President of the Organization of American Historians and in 1997 as the President of the American Historical Association. In retirement, she remains a prolific researcher and editor. Among the many professional activities she continues to pursue is co-directing with James Banner the History News Service, an informal association that distributes op-ed essays to over 300 newspapers weekly. She is indefatigable in writing op-ed essays herself and dedicates much time to the living wage movement in Los Angeles.

The seminar and lecture are free and open to the public.