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Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover: Conservative Power in a Liberal Age 2/6/09 - BEVERLY GAGE is assistant professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University. Her teaching and research focus on the evolution of American political ideologies and institutions. Her first book, The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror, was published this month by Oxford University Press. The book focuses on the 1920 Wall Street explosion, an unsolved terrorist attack that killed 38 people in New York's financial district.
In addition to her teaching and research, Professor Gage has written for numerous journals and magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, TIME, Slate.com, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post. Her next book will be a biography of J. Edgar Hoover. |
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President John Casteen Delivers Annual State of the University Address 2/4/09 - U.Va. President John T. Casteen III called for the University to |
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Harry Harding Named Founding Dean of U.Va.'s Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy 1/30/09 - Harry Harding, one of America's preeminent China scholars, will become the first dean of the University of Virginia's Frank Batten Sr. School of Leadership and Public Policy, University President John T. Casteen III announced on January 30. Harding begins his term on July 1. |
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Defending 9-11 Terrorists Zacarias Moussaoui and Walid Muhammad Salih Bin'Attash 1/30/09 - What is involved in defending some of the most despised men in the world? EDWARD B. MACMAHON, JR., is a veteran trial lawyer based in Washington, DC (and a U.Va. graduate), who served as counsel to Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person charged in an American court with having a role in the 9/11 attacks. He presently is counsel to Walid Muhammad Salih Bin'Attash in a trial before a military commission at Guantanamo. Bin'Attash is charged with bombing the U.S.S. Cole and with the 9/11 attacks. |
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China's Rise in Historical Context: China and the World Order: Dilemmas of Status 1/30/09 - How will China's past impact its future? Join us as professors Joseph Esherick (University of California, San Diego) and Lowell Dittmer (University of California, Berkeley) discuss the contradictory elements of a tradition of centrality and superiority versus a century of Western-oriented humiliation, and how these factors shape Chinese politics. This discussion will be moderated by U.Va. Politics Professor Brantly Womack and is part of a semester-long series on China's Rise in Historical Context. |
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The Medical Center Hour: "If That Ever Happens to Me...": Making Life and Death Decisions after Terri Schiavo 1/28/09 - Lois L. Shepherd, J.D., explores ways in which the Terri Schiavo case continues to affect us all |
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War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism 1/26/09 - DOUGLAS J. FEITH is Professor and Distinguished Practitioner in National Security Policy at Georgetown University. A Belfer Center Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he is the author of War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism (Harper, 2008). Feith has received the Distinguished Public Service Medal, the Defense Department's highest civilian award. |
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Christian McMillen, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia 1/23/09 - McMillen currently has an article in Bulletin of the History of Medicine titled "'The Red Man and the White Plague': Rethinking American Indians, Tuberculosis, and Race, 1890-1950." He is also working on a book on global TB control with the support of the Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia, the Welcome Trust in England and a year-long fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He spoke at the Miller Center on January 23, 2009. |
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