Professor of History Maurice Isserman was keynote speaker at the University of Maine History Department's 2004 conference for Maine middle and high school teachers held in Orono in October. The day-long event, titled "The 1960's: A Decade of Hope, Rage, & Change," featured talks and panel discussions on many aspects of one of the most influential periods in the lives of today's baby-boomers and the generations that followed. Isserman's talk was titled "Old Glory on Mt. Everest and Other Ironic Tales from the Sixties."
The event, now in its 10th year, draws approximately 100 teachers to the Orono campus each year and serves as a forum for discussing and disseminating recent scholarship and ways of incorporating aspects of the new material into Maine's middle and high school curricula.
Isserman is an expert on 20th-century U.S. history, particularly the 1960s. A former Fulbright grant-winner, he is co-author of America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. His most recent book, The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington, has been named to countless non-fiction "must-read" lists.
