Susan Brewer

Office: 471 CCC

Phone: 346-2336

E-mail: sbrewer@uwsp.edu 

Title: Professor

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell University

M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science

B.A., Allegheny College

  

Courses taught:

History 176: U.S. History to 1877
History 177: U.S. History since 1877

History 214:  The Dilemmas of Americanization:  The United States and the World

          since 1945
History 300: Introduction to Historical Methods and Methodology

History 302:  War and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century

History 377: U.S. Foreign Relations 1750-1914

History 378: U.S. Foreign Relations 1914-present
History 395: World War II: History and Memory
        U.S. History and Film in the 1930s
        Wisconsin Politics and Society since 1945
        The United States and Vietnam
        The United States and World War II
History 490: The American Way: Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations
          The United States and the Cold War 
International Studies 480: Senior Seminar

Specialty:

American Foreign Relations

Memberships:

American Historical Association 
Organization of American Historians
Society for Historians of Foreign Relations  

Publications:

Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq.  New York: Oxford University Press, July 2009.

To Win the Peace: British Propaganda in the United States during World War II.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

"Crusaders vs. Barbarians: American Propaganda during World War I,"  in “Huns” vs. “Corned Beef”: Representations of the Other in American and German Literature and Film on World War I. Thomas F. Schneider and Hans Wagener, editors. Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2007. Pages 27-57.

“‘As Far as We Can’: Culture and U.S. Foreign Relations” in Blackwell’s Companion to the History of U.S. Foreign Relations. Robert Schulzinger, editor. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, July 2003. Pages 15-30.

 “Propaganda” in The Oxford Companion to U.S. History. Paul S. Boyer, editor in chief. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Producer: The Progressive Legacy: Wisconsin Politics and Society since 1945. Twelve-Part video series. 1995.

Recent Presentations:

"Why America Fights," presented at the international conference, "Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and War in the Modern Age," University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, July 2008.

“Crusaders vs. Barbarians: American Propaganda during World War I,” invited lecture at an international and interdisciplinary conference, “Huns vs. Corned Beef: Representations of the Other in American and German Literature and Film on World War I,” University of California, Los Angeles, October 2006.

 “‘Don’t Fence Me In’: Selling Internationalism to the American Public in World War II,” presented at the annual conference of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, University of Kansas, Lawrence, June 2006.

 “The Demise of the West/The Rise of the Western: Propaganda and the War in Iraq,” presented at the Culture and International History III Conference, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, December 2005.

"'People Need To Be Told Again And Again Why We Are There': Explaining U.S. War Aims in Vietnam," presented at the American Historical Association, Pacific Branch Conference, Vancouver Canada, August 2001.