Allan C. Carlson

Allan C. Carlson ( born 1949 in Des Moines ) is an American historian and author.

Life

Carlson studied history at Augustana College in Rock Iceland, Illinois, and at Ohio State University. After the Ph.D. he worked for the Lutheran Council in America and was NEH fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. In 1979 he was Lecturer at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and in 2003 at Oriel College, Oxford University (England). In 1988 he was appointed to the Rockefeller Commission. In the 1980s he became a member of the conservative think tanks Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois. He is also president of the Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, director of the Family in America Studies Center and a member of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC active and as a consultant, Fellow and guest speakers at home and abroad. In 1997 he organized The World Congress of Families in Prague; Three years later, the then in Geneva. He professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Carlson is married and has four children.

Writings (selection )

  • Family Questions: Reflections on the American Social Crisis. Transaction Press, Somerset, 1988, ISBN 0-88738-206-1.
  • The Swedish Experiment in Family Politics: The Myrdal and the Interwar Population Crisis. Transaction Press, Somerset, 1990, ISBN 0-88738-299-1.
  • From Cottage to Work Station: The Family 's Search for Social Harmony in the Industrial Age. Ignatius Press, San Fransico 1993, ISBN 0-89870-429-4.
  • The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in 20th Century America, Transaction Press, Somerset 2000, ISBN 0-7658-0590-1.
  • The American Way: Family and Community in the Shaping of the American Identity. ISI Books, Wilmington 2003, ISBN 1-932236-11-2.
  • Third Ways: How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer - Swilling Englishmen Created Family - Centered Economies -and Why They Disappeared. ISI Books, Wilmington 2007, ISBN 978-1-933859-40-8.
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