James Sparrow, History, University of Chicago. "Our River of Power Flowed toward War": David Lilienthal, the TVA, and the Evisceration of the Concept of Public Utility in the American Century.

Event Date: 

Friday, May 3, 2019 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

Event Location: 

  • 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building

Sparrow is the author of Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big Government (2011) and co-editor of Boundaries of the State in U.S. History (2015). His current projects include Sovereign Discipline: The American Extraterritorial State in the Atomic Age and New Leviathan: Rethinking Sovereignty and Political Agency after Total War. A copy of his paper can be found here

April 28, 2019 - 10:12pm