Center for the U.S. and the Cold War hosts Lecture Series This Fall

The Center for the U.S. and the Cold War, a joint project of the Tamiment Library, the University’s archive devoted to research on labor history and the history of progressive and radical political movements, and of the Faculty of Arts and Science, will host a lecture series this fall.  The center supports research on the ways in which the ideological struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union shaped American politics, foreign policy, economics, culture, and society.
    On October 2, Heonik Kwon, from the University of Edinburgh and author of the forthcoming book The Decomposition of the Cold War, discusses “New Ancestral Shrines after the Cold War.”
    Other lectures include:  on Oct. 23, Baruch College’s Thomas Heinrich on “Weapon of Dictators: Preventive War and Its Critics during the Truman and Eisenhower Years”; on Nov. 20, Sam Levovic from the University of Chicago on “The Political Culture of Journalism in the Age of Totalitarianism”; and on Dec. 4, Texas A&M University Professor Jeff Engel on the subject of his new Princeton University Press book, The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.” See page 7 for more.
    Most events take place at 5 p.m. at the Tamiment Library, 10th floor of the NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square South.  For more information:  212.998.2471; or email: zk3@nyu.edu.
—Barbara Jester