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Carl R. Weinberg

Carl Weinberg

I was born in Chicago and grew up in nearby Oak Park, Illinois. I write and teach (well, taught, as I am retired as of June 2026) at Indiana University-Bloomington about the modern United States, with a focus on social movements, culture wars, and politics. My latest book is Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (Cornell University Press, 2021). My first book was Labor, Loyalty, and Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). In addition to teaching in the history department about the controversy over evolutionary science, I offered courses on leadership, social movements, and public policy as part of the Political and Civic Engagement (PACE) Program and a course on the history and politics of meat in the Liberal Arts and Management Program (LAMP). I also co-taught a course on the history of mathematics. Over the past five years, I was centrally involved in promoting the pedagogy of role-playing games in the classroom. In my spare time, I play jazz around town and classical clarinet in the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.

I created this website as a way to share “cutting-room floor” material that I had written or collected that never made it into Red Dynamite. In retirement, I am moving onto my next project, which is a book of autobiographical/family history-inspired essays. Stay tuned.

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