Labor & Intellectual Historian
Labor & Intellectual Historian
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Welcome to BeauDriver.com. This site is the professional and academic portfolio of Beau Driver, Ph.D. As such, this will be the central clearinghouse for Dr. Driver’s work. Please check back often for updates and new work.
About
About
Beau Driver is a historian of the 19th and 20th century United States who focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His main research interests are in Americans’ understanding of class and work in the United States as well as the history of the workplace and cultural and gender history.
About
Beau Driver is a historian of the 19th and 20th century United States who focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. His main research interests are in Americans’ understanding of class and work in the United States as well as the history of the workplace and cultural and gender history.
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“A Place Among Original Investigators:” Walter Wyckoff, Alfred Pierce, and Me
Most historians have felt the thrill of discovery at some point while in the archives. There is a rush that comes with finding something new. For me, it has often felt as though I was suddenly taking an active role in the history that I study. I’ve experienced some of these moments in the archives when, for example, I realized that the second page of a letter that was listed as “missing” was actually in another collection that I had just been looking at. But in the summer of 2016, I made a discovery that for me was the fabled “mother lode” and laid out my dissertation before me.
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