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March 22, 2011

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8B – Daily News – Tuesday, March 22, 2011 Rutgers history professor to speak at Chico State University Jackson Lears, History, Rutgers University, will speak on "The Trigger of History: Rethinking Capital- ism and Modernity" at 8 p.m., April 7 in Trinity Hall room 100, at California State University, Chico. Lears is the Humanities Center's "Chance" Theme Guest. A reception will fol- low the event. Lears was educated at the University of Virginia, the University of North Caroli- na and at Yale University, 8049 Hwy 99E, Los Molinos, CA We Accept EBT “Your Family Supermarket” We appreciate your business - and we show it! HOURS: 7AM - 9 PM DAILY BLACK CANYON ANGUS BEEF WE FEATURE SPECIALLY CUT MEATS AT NO EXTRA CHARGE Boneless Center Cut Pork Loin Chops Strawberries Fresh 16oz. Clamshell (Product of Ca) 2 for Post $400 Cereals Asst. varieties 13-24 oz. $299 ea Tombstone Pizza $500 2 for Produce Specials Sliced or Whole $199 lb. Mushrooms 8oz. Cello (Product of CA) $169 ea Grocery Specials Tide Laundry Detergent 50-57 oz. $599 ea Tropicana Orange Juice 59 oz. carafes or 6 count packages 2 for $600 Liquor Special Bud, Coors, Miller 18 pack 12oz. beer $1199 +CRV $ Prices good Meat Specials Boneless Beef Top Sirloin Steaks $349 lb. Castroville Artichokes Large 1000 10 for Lays or Kettle Lay’s Potato Chips 8.5-11 oz. $500 2 for Crystal Yogurt 6 oz. cups 10 for $500 Sierra Nevada 12 pack 12oz. beer $1299 +CRV March 23 thru March 29, 2011 where he received the Ph.D. in American Studies in 1979. He has taught at Yale, the University of Missouri, and New York University. He is now Board of Gov- ernors Professor of History at Rutgers University and Editor in Chief of “Raritan: a Quarterly Review.” He is the author of No Place of Grace: Antimod- ernism and the Transforma- tion of American Culture, 1880-1920, which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981, and Fables of Abundance: a Cultural His- tory of Advertising in America, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History in 1995. He has written on cultur- al hegemony in the Ameri- can Historical Review, on modern art and advertising in American Quarferly, and on memory and power in the Journal of American History. He has co-edited two collections of essays, 384-1563 WE ACCEPT FOOD STAMPS NO CARDS REQUIRED FOR EVERYDAY LOW PRICING OR SALE ITEMS The Culture of Consump- tion and The Power of Cul- ture. His “Something for Nothing: Luck in America” was published by Viking Penguin in 2003. Most recently, his “Rebirth of a Nation, the Making of Mod- ern America, 1877-1920 was published by Harper Collins in June 2009. Lears has held fellow- ships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Guggen- heim Foundation, the Rock- efeller Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Winterthur Museum, the Smithsonian Institution and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University. In 2003 he received the Public Humanities Award for "making ideas current" from the New Jersey Coun- cil for the Humanities. He has been a regular contribu- tor to The New Republic, The Nanon, Tne Los Ange- les Times, The Washington Post and The New York Times. In April 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Lears regularly teaches undergraduate courses in 20th century U.S. cultural history. His graduate course offerings include seminars and colloquia in U.S. and comparative cultural history.

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