Post Tagged with: "Kevin Mattson"

The Guardian’s Ian Plenderleith ranked Dr. Kevin Mattson’s book on Jimmy Carter numero uno on his list of the top 10 books about the 1970s. Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University. Here are 10 magnificent books in a similar vein – not about the […]

Dr. Kevin Mattson, the Connor Study Professor of Contemporary History at Ohio University, was quoted in an International Business Times story on “The Hunger Games Mockingjay Release: How Katniss And Other Pop Culture Icons Inspire Protesters Across The Globe.” “The real-life use of a fictional gesture led to five students’ […]

St. Louis Public Radio reporter Jason Rosenbaum found Ohio University’s Dr. Kevin Mattson and his family taking part in the protests over the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. Mattson is the Connor Study Professor of History at Ohio University. Rosenbaum found Mattson and his family outside the Ferguson […]

Three History Department faculty members received College of Arts & Sciences awards for 2013-14. Dr. Mariana Dantas, Associate Professor of History, won the Dean’s Outstanding Faculty Undergraduate Advising Award. Dr. Kevin Mattson, Professor of History, won the Outstanding Faculty Research and Scholarship in the Social Sciences Award. Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor […]

Months before debate erupted over the concept of the “imperial presidency” and “executive orders,” Dr. Kevin Mattson was at the Roosevelt Institute in Ireland detailing a view that the power asserted by FDR and used by LBJ was undermined by the Vietnam War—and that liberals are unlikely to sustain its […]

By Corinne Colbert  In his famous “Checkers” speech, Richard Nixon—then a senator from California and Dwight Eisenhower’s troubled running mate in the 1952 presidential election—downplayed his connection to a cabal of extremely wealthy donors. He portrayed himself as a middle-class guy whose wife wore “a respectable Republican cloth coat” and […]