Talk by Dan Albert: Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless

The Salem State History Department is pleased to host Dan Allbert as part of the Public History Speakers Series.  Albert, an historian and automotive journalist, will discuss his new book and the process of negotiating between historical scholarship and popular interest in cars in his writing.  In Are We There Yet,  Albert combines historical scholarship with personal narrative to explore how car culture has suffused America’s DNA. 

The plain, old-fashioned, human-driven car built our economy, won our wars, and shaped our democratic creed as it moved us about. Are We There Yet? carries us from muddy tracks to superhighways, from horseless buggies to driverless electric vehicles, documenting “our relationships to cars and through cars and the stories we tell about those relationships.”

Please contact Dr. Margo Shea for more information: 978-542-2610 or mshea@salemstate.edu