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 Visiting Professor of History
Office: 201 Carson Hall
Fax: (603) 646-3353
Email: Ronald.Edsforth@Dartmouth.edu
Address:
- Department of History
Dartmouth College
6107 Carson Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
Courses
- 6: The War Against War: Origins and History of the World Peace
Movement
- 19: U. S. Political History since 1900
- 30: American Economic and Business History
- 96: The Great Depression
Ron Edsforth has taught History courses at Dartmouth since 1993. In graduate
school at Michigan State University Ron studied the comparative history of the
industrial revolutions in Europe, North America, and Japan. For many years
after receiving his PhD. in 1982, Ron’s scholarly work built the case that
modern America’s political exceptionalism is rooted in the early establishment
of its automobile-centered consumer economy and its exemption from the massive
destruction of the World Wars. He is the author of Class Conflict and
Cultural Consensus (Rutgers, 1987) and The New Deal: America’s
Response to the Great Depression (Blackwell, 2000), and editor of two
essay collections: Popular Culture and Political Change in Modern
America (SUNY 1991) and Autowork (SUNY, 1995). He was also chief
historian for the PBS documentary history of the automobile industry,
America on Wheels (1996), and is currently editor for Blackwell
Publishers’ book series “America’s Recent Past.”
During the last decade, Ron has developed a strong interest in the
intertwined histories of world peace politics, the world wars, and economic
globalization. He has taught courses on these subjects in Dartmouth’s War and
Peace Studies and Masters of Liberals Arts programs, and is now Chair of
Globalization Studies in the MALS program. Ron’s most recent articles have
appeared in Salmagundi and Visual Resources. His next book
will be a history of the world peace movement since the Hague Conference of
1899
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