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One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War 11/14/08 - MICHAEL DOBBS joined the Washington Post as its Warsaw correspondent in 1980. He was the first Western journalist to visit the Gdansk shipyard in August 1980, and spent much of the '80s covering the collapse of Communism from Eastern Europe, Russia, and China. Dobbs has also covered the State Department and been a foreign investigative reporter for the Post, and has held fellowships at Harvard and Princeton universities. He is the author of Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Vintage, 1998) and Madeleine Albright: A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (Henry Holt and Co., 1999). |
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Second Nature: The Popularization of the Telephone in Late Nineteenth Century Chicago 11/14/08 - Richard R. John the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse (1995) and many articles on the history of American public policy, business, and communications. In addition, he is the editor of a volume of original essay on topics in nineteenth-century U. S. political history, Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America (2006). He is currently completing a history of early American telecommunications. |
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An Open, Civilized World 11/7/08 - ERNEST MAY is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has been a consultant to the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and other agencies, and was Senior Advisor to the 9/11 Commission (2003-04). May is a former Dean of Harvard College, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Institute of Politics. PHILIP ZELIKOW is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at U.Va., and a former Director of the Miller Center (1998-2005). He served as Director of three bipartisan commissions, including the 9/11 Commission, and was Counselor to the Department of State (2005-07). |
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2008: An Election Post-Mortem11/6/08 - "2008: An Election Post-Mortem, A Forum on Race, Gender and Religion in the Presidential Campaign" took place in Clark Hall on November 6 at 7:30 pm. Designed as an event to bring together UVa students, faculty and the Charlottesville community in an open discussion and assessment of this historical Presidential Campaign, it featured Tim Lovelace, graduate student in History, Lynn Sanders, Assoc. Professor of Politics, Valerie Cooper, Asst. Professor of Religious Studies, and Bruce Williams, Professor of Media Studies, as speakers. A question and answer session ended the evening.
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Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball: 2008 Election Predictions 11/1/08 - Professor Larry Sabato makes his final pre-election 'More Than the Score' presentation of the award-winning Sabato's Crystal Ball. After several hundred national TV appearances and more than two hundred speeches on the subject, Sabato has saved the best for last to share with the people he calls his extended Wahoo family. Named the most accurate prognosticator of 2006 by FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC and Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism, Sabato offers his predictions for the Senate, House and Governor |
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Race and Genealogy in Twentieth Century America 9/24/08 - Francois Weil gave a lecture entitled "Race and Genealogy in Twentieth Century America" in the Kaleidoscope Room at Newcomb Hall on September 24, 2008. |
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The Medical Center Hour: The Politics of Vaccination in American History 9/17/08 - Vaccination policy and practices have always been challenged. While the science of
vaccination has often seemed straightforward, the politics of vaccination is quite another matter.
Co-presented with the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life and the History of the Health Sciences Lecture Series, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library. |
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More than the Score: A History of the Corner with Coy Barefoot 8/30/08 - On August 30, 2008, best-selling author Coy Barefoot presented a history of the Corner which traced the evolution of the community formerly known as University, Virginia. The event is part of the More than the Score pre-game lecture series. |
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