Tony Badger, Professor in American History at Northumbria University
Location: Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
Location: Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Location: Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, Hutchins Center, 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3R, Cambridge, MA
Tony Badger is Professor in American History at Northumbria University. From 1992-2014 he was Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College 2003-2014. A leading historian of the New Deal, his books include Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1980), The New Deal: The Depression Years 1933-1940 (London and New York, 1990) and FDR The First Hundred Days (Hill and Wang: New York, 2008). The latter was described by then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown as “a classic example of how a work of history can illuminate the issues we’re dealing with today”. As a historian of the post-1933 South, Badger collected many of his essays in New Deal/New South: The Anthony J Badger Reader (University of Arkansas Press: Fayetteville, 2007). He has just completed a biography of Albert Gore Sr which is to be published by Penn in November.
From 2009-2016 Badger was chair of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. Since 2011 he has been the independent reviewer for the British Foreign Office monitoring the release of documents whose existence the Foreign Office had previously denied. In 2017 he was elected President of the Historical Association for a three year term.
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