Allan C. Carlson

Allan C. Carlson

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

Life

Carlson studied history at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois and Ohio State University . After the Ph.D. he worked for the Lutheran Council in America and was an NEH fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute . In 1979 he was Lecturer at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and in 2003 the Oriel College of the University of Oxford (England). In 1988 he was appointed to the Rockefeller Commission . In the 1980s he became a member of the conservative think tank 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, and has served as a consultant, fellow and guest speaker at home and abroad. In 1997 he organized The World Congress of Families in Prague; three years later the one in Geneva. He is a professor of history at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan. Carlson is married with four children.

Fonts (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 Myrdals 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 Francisco 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 .

Web links

• Allan C. Carlson at the Howard Center