Seminar by Wilfred McClay, June 22, 2010, on the role of American free market ingenuity and expertise.
Wilfred McClay
- SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he is also Professor of History, since 1999; is also Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, and a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program of Princeton University; additionally, McClay was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities
- His book The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history published in the years 1993 and 1994. Some other recent texts include The Student’s Guide to U.S. History (2001), and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America (2003)
- His newest project is a book studying the role of guilt in history