balpers@ou.edu
Boren Hall 120
Ben Alper's work centers on twentieth-century American thought and culture, including film history and the history of political thought. His book Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture, 1920's-1950s concerns U.S. responses to Soviet Communism, Italian Fascism, and German Nazism, and the development of the idea of totalarianism. He is currently working on a book entitled Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America, which explores early attempts to come to grips with the social and cultural changes that took place in the 1960s. He also serves as the editor of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History's blog.
