Hollywood''s America: Understanding History Through Film

About David WelkyRandy W. RobertsSteven Mintz

Steven Mintz is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive director of the University of Texas Systems Institute for Transformational Learning. He is the author and editor of fourteen books including The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood Hucks Raft: A History of American Childhood and Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life. He is the editor of African American Voices (4th edition Wiley-Blackwell 2009) Mexican American Voices (2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell 2009) and Native American Voices (2nd edition Wiley-Blackwell 2000). Randy Roberts is Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. His publications include John Wayne American (with James S. Olson 1995) A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory (with James S. Olson2000) Joe Louis: Hard Times Man (2010) A Team for America: The Army-Navy Game That Rallied a Nation (2011) and Rising Tide: Bear Bryant Joe Namath and Dixies Last Quarter (with Ed Krzemienski 2014). Roberts has served frequently as a consultant and on-camera commentator for PBS HBO and the History Channel.  David Welky is a Professor of History at the University of Central Arkansas. Among his most recent publications are The Moguls and the Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II (2008) Everything was Better in America: Mainstream Print Culture and the Great Depression (2008) The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937 (2011) America Between the Wars 19191941: A Documentary Reader (Wiley-Blackwell 2011) John Wayne (with Randy Roberts 2012) and Marching Across the Color Line: A. Philip Randolph and Civil Rights in the World War II Era (2013).