Shorten and Schulman Present on 1920s at HOTCUS Conference in Dublin
PhD Candidate Dave Shorten and Professor Bruce Schulman participated in a session on “Rethinking the 1920s” at the annual meeting of HOTCUS (Historians of the Twentieth Century United States) at University College Dublin. Shorten presented a paper entitled, “The Legacy of Anti-League Arguments: The League of Nations and 1920s ‘Isolationism’ in Historical Memory,” while Schulman delivered “Uncle Sam, the Eye, and the Oscar: The Modern Media Landscape and the Associational State in the 1920s.”
The conference also featured presentations by two former BU-Cambridge Exchange Fellows, Kate Jernigan Ballantyne and Ruth Lawlor.
