During the academic years 1974/75 and 1975/76, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies focused on the history of popular culture.

Topics Included:

• Working class ideology and culture
• Revolution, rebellion, and protest
• Women, labor, and family
• Elite vs. popular culture
• Popular religion
• Witchcraft and folk tradition
• Public opinion, authority, propaganda, and censorship
• Festival, celebration, and ritual
• Leisure
• Popular consciousness

Davis Center Fellows

1974-1975

• William H. Beik, Northern Illinois University
• Vernon L. Lidtke, Johns Hopkins University
• Frederick D. Marquand, Syracuse University
• Irving Scheiner, University of California, Berkeley

1975-1976

• Ira Berlin, University of Maryland
• Robert J. Bezucha, Northwestern University
• Roger Chartier, École des Hautes de Études en Sciences Sociales
• Herbert Gutman, City College of New York
• Lynn Hollen Lees, University of Pennsylvania