A joint appointment with African American Studies, Germany teaches courses on recent U.S. history and 20th Century African American Studies. His research focuses on the American South, urban history, documentary history, digital history, and post-World War II U.S. politics, with a particular emphasis on issues of poverty, civil rights, and citizenship. He is author of several articles and the forthcoming New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Search for the Great Society (University of Georgia Press, February 2007) and co-editor of two books about Lyndon Johnson's White House recordings and the 1960s:The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power (Norton, 2005) and Toward the Great Society (forthcoming from Norton, August 2007). He is a co-founder and co-editor of www.whitehousetapes.org and a co host of For The Record, a PBS interview program on politics and history.

Current Activities

He is currently conducting research for projects on the Johnson administration and the southern freedom movement and on Hurricane Katrina.

Kent Germany