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Appleby looks back over 20yr career [video 3hr]

Historian Joyce Appleby will be our guest for"In Depth" on July 2nd. Professor Appleby, who retired after 20 years of teaching at UCLA in 2001, specializes in British, French and early American history. Her books include Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth Century England (1978), Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (1984), Understanding the United States Constitution, 1787-1987 (1988), Without Resolution: The Jeffersonian Tension in American Nationalism (1991), Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination (1992), Telling the Truth About History (1994), The American Journey (1998), Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans (2000), Encyclopedia of Women in American History (2002), Thomas Jefferson (2003), and A Restless Past: History and the American Public (2005). She is also editor of The Best American History Essays 2006.
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