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“Rock Around the Clock” Workshops
August 7, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm CDT
Plenty of topics to choose from as our experts speak at Ashland Public Library.
| Time | North Room | South Room |
| 9:00 AM | SAC, Deterrence, and Nebraska in the Early Cold War
Brian York, Curator, SAC Museum |
History of Rock N’ Roll
Randall Snyder, Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau |
| 10:00 AM | Red Channels: Anti-Communism in 1950s Film and Television
Dr. Sean Trundle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Crises and Opportunities of the 1950s Cold War
Dr. Thomas Berg, Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau |
| 11:00 AM | The Fight for Civil Rights
Becky Stone & Dr. Lenneal Henderson, Chautauqua scholars |
75 minutes |
| 12:15 PM | LUNCH | |
| 1 PM | Conformity and Its Discontents: Suburbanization and Consumer Culture
Dr. Sean Trundle, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
A Lost Consensus? Politics and Culture in the 1950s
Dr. Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska-Omaha |
| 2 PM | Fire in the Hole: The Contrasting Visions of Dwight Eisenhower and Earl Warren
Jim Newton, Eisenhower and Warren scholar |
What’s Up with Ward & June? The 1950s American Family in Myth, Memory, & Reality
Dr. Catherine Biba, Hastings College |
| 3 PM | Whom We Shall Welcome: Immigration and the Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in Postwar America
Dr. Danielle Battisti, University of Nebraska-Omaha |
The Korean War: Uncharted Waters in the Cold War
Dr. Thomas Berg, Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau |
| 4 PM | Let’s Play Ball! Sports in American Life
Dr. Catherine Biba, Hastings College |
Post-War Pop: Memorabilia of the 1950s
Donald-Brian Johnson, Humanities Nebraska Speakers Bureau |
