Fascism in History with Matthew Specter, Fall 2022

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This course examines the evolution of fascism throughout the 20th century. Through lectures, participants will gain an understanding of how the personalities of Mussolini and Hitler subverted democracy from within and created dictatorships. The course will go on to explore the American fascist fringe of the 1930s and ‘40s and the reconstruction of classic European fascism by the transatlantic radical right after 1945.

Matthew Specter is a specialist in modern European intellectual history and 20th century political thought. He has taught for over 20 years at universities including Duke, UC Berkeley, Stanford, and George Mason. He is the author of two major monographs in intellectual history including, The Atlantic Realists: Empire and Intellectual Political Thought Between Germany and the United States.