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U.S. Embassy Teacher Academy 2008
Lincoln’s Legacy: Nation Building, Democracy and the Question of Race and Civil Rights
October 2–5, 2008
Dr. David Goldfield is Robert Lee Bailey Prof. of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Goldfield published an American history textbook with Prentice Hall, called The American Journey: A History of the United States. His most recent publication is Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred. He is also the author of the awardwinning study, Still Fighting the Civil War: the American South and Southern History. Dr. Goldfield is an expert on the American South, including race relations, economic development, religion, and political culture. His research has also focused on the American City with many of the same issues, including ethnicity. He is author of "America's Changing Perceptions of Race, 1946-1996," in Cristina Giorcelli and Rob Kroes, eds., Living With America, 1946-1996 (VU University Press, Amsterdam, 1997), Race, Region, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South (1997), Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture (1990), and Urban America: A History (sec. ed. 1990). Dr. Goldfield received his Ph.D. in History from the University of Maryland in 1970. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Urban History since 1990 and is consultant to numerous urban and southern history museums.
