Tim Lacy
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Historian and History Instructor
- Location: Chicago : Illinois : United States
About Me
I earned a doctorate in history from Loyola University Chicago, where my focus was the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries. My specialty areas are cultural and intellectual history, as well as the history of education. I currently work in the Office of the Historian at the University of the Illinois at Chicago. Disclaimer: The views I express here are solely and only mine, and not those of my present or past employers.
Interests
- In the context of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century U.S. History: Intellectual Life;
- Popular Culture;
- Education;
- Philosophy;
- The Great Books Idea;
- The Culture Wars;
- Environmental Issues;
- and Catholicism. Other Interests: Bicycling;
- Chess;
- Scrabble;
- Cinema;
- Wine;
- Single Malt Scotch;
- and Beer.
Favorite Movies
- And TV (weighted loosely toward history): Band of Brothers;
- Fog of War;
- The Weather Underground;
- X;
- Black Robe;
- Amistad;
- Roger & Me;
- The Birth of a Nation;
- Glory;
- The History Boys;
- History Detectives;
- Schindler's List;
- various Ken Burns projects;
- and numerous PBS American Experience programs.
Favorite Books
- Here's a non-fiction sampling (weighted toward history): Cronon's Changes in the Land and Nature's Metropolis;
- Rubin's Making of Middlebrow Culture;
- Menand's The Metaphysical Club;
- Erenberg's Swingin' the Dream;
- Veysey's The Emergence of the American University;
- Rudolph's The American College and University;
- Denning's The Cultural Front;
- Lewis Perry's Intellectual Life in America;
- Higham's Strangers in the Land;
- David McCullough's Truman;
- Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters;
- Truss' Eats Shoots and Leaves;
- Adler's How to Read a Book;
- Arnold's Culture and Anarchy;
- Copleston's A History of Philosophy;
- Augustine's Confessions;
- and Aquinas' Summa Theologica.
