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Andrew Bacevich – America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallReception begins at 5:30
Dueling Views of the Cold War’s End
World Affairs CouncilJeffrey Engel and William Taubman
Kori Schake – Warriors and Citizens: American Views of our Military
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallReception starts at 5:30
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands
The David J. Weber-Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America Julian Lim
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallErica Armstrong Dunbar, University of Delaware
LBJ’s 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America’s Year of Upheaval
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallKyle Longley, Director, LBJ Library
Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
McCord Auditorium, Dallas HallMarie Griffith, Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Washington University in St. Louis
Lady First: The World of First Lady Sarah Polk
Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium)Center for Presidential History Lecture, By Amy Greenberg, Penn State University: While the Woman’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. […]
Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America
Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TXAnointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation’s special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century […]
THIRD RAIL: Two States 101 – Examining the Past, Present and Future of a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Temple Shalom 6930 Alpha Road Dallas, TX United StatesTwo States 101: Examining the Past, Present and Future of a Two-State Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict aims to help the audience better understand the complexities around a viable two-state outcome, the impact of potential annexation of all or parts of the West Bank, the current situation in Gaza, and what will happen to Israel’s future as […]