History professor looks at love and power

in the American musical

January 26, 2006

What post World War II musicals tell us about love and power is the subject of the next lecture in the Michael J. Colligan History Project series, Tuesday, Feb. 7.

Miami University's Distinguished Professor of History Andrew Cayton discusses what the often tragic depictions of romantic love in musicals tell us about the possibilities for cross-cultural relationships in an American century. The lecture, free and open to the public, begins at 7:30pm in The Harry T. Wilks Conference Center. A reception will follow.

Andrew Cayton specializes in the history of trans-Appalachian North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Among his publications are The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-
2000, co-authored with Fred Anderson; Ohio: The History of a People (2002); Frontier Indiana; and The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region, co-authored with Peter S. Onuf.