Think & Drink with Stephanie Coontz, July 10, 2014 by Oregon Humanities

On July 10, 2014, historian Stephanie Coontz joined Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities, for a conversation about government regulation of marriage and family life in America at the Mission Theater in Portland, Oregon.

Coontz teaches history and family studies at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and serves as director of research and public education at the Council on Contemporary Families. She is the author of seven books on marriage and family life, including <em>A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s</em>, <em>Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage</em>, and <em>The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap</em>.

Think & Drink is a happy-hour series that sparks provocative conversations about big ideas. More information about Think & Drink and Oregon Humanities can be found at oregonhumanities.org