Dr. Lawrence Lipin
Education: Ph.D., UCLA, 1989
Marsh 336
Phone: (503)352-2755
Email: lipinlm@pacificu.edu
Education: Ph.D., UCLA, 1989
Email: lipinlm@pacificu.edu
Teaching Interests
My aim is to help students appreciate history as an important means of coming to know what it is to be human, and to see that it provides perspectives into the way people create culture and society and, at the same time, are shaped by it. In my American history courses, students are encouraged to think about the relationships between cultural belief systems and the structures of social organization and power that people form and live under. Students learn to think about the intentions and results of human activity in the past and the degree to which individuals and groups are able to control and shape their destinies. Rather than as a clear instrument for future action, I teach students to see history as an opportunity to come to understand how our historical predecessors have struggled--sometimes successfully, sometimes less so, sometimes in ways that we are proud of, sometimes in ways that we would like to disown--to shape the world in their image.
History Course Offerings (All courses, unless otherwise noted, offered biannually):
- 141-2 American History Survey--2 course class offered annually
- 243 American West: History, Memory and Film
- 245 Race and Culture in American History
- 341 American Revolution and Constitution
- 342 Civil War and Reconstruction
- 343 Industrialization, Labor and the State: United States,1877-1939
- 345 Gender and Sexuality in Victorian American
- 441 Environmental History
Publications
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Workers and the Wild: Nature, Labor and Consumerism in Oregon, 1910-1930 (forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, 2006)
- Producers, Proletarians and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87, (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
- "Burying the 'Destroyer of One Happy Home': Industrial Authority, Manhood, and Constituency Building in the Murder Trial of Ira Strunk," Journal of Social History 28 (Summer 1995), 783-800.
- "'There will not be a Mechanic Left': The Battle Against Unskilled Labor in the San Francisco Harness Making Trade, 1880-90," Labor History 35 (Spring 1994), 216-236.
