“Tear Down This Wall!”
Teaching the Cold War in Schools
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
8:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Omni Parker House
60 School St.
Boston, MA
SPEAKERS
Anne Applebaum is a historian, journalist and a columnist for
the Washington Post and Slate, as well as a regular contributor to
the New Republic, the New York Review of Books and many other
publications. She runs the Transitions Forum at the Legatum
Institute in London, lectures widely, and in 2012-2013 held the
Phillipe Roman chair in History and International Affairs at the
London School of Economics (LSE). Her book, Gulag: A History,
won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction. Her most recent book,
Iron Curtain, was nominated for a National Book Award and won
the 2013 Cundill Prize for historical literature. She is a graduate of
Yale and the LSE. AGENDA
8:00 – 8:05
Welcome
Thomas Birmingham
Distinguished Senior Fellow in Education, Pioneer Institute
8:05 –9:05
Co-Keynote Remarks
Anne Applebaum
Author, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
and Gulag: A History
Edmund Morris
Author, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan and the
Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy
Credit:
Leslie Lillien Levy
Edmund Morris is the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Awardwinning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1980), as well as
the bestselling sequels, Theodore Rex (2001) and Colonel Roosevelt
(2010). He also wrote the authorized biography of President
Reagan, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (1999); This Living Hand:
And Other Essays (2012), biographical insights on Henry Adams,
Mark Twain, Nadine Gordimer, and Glenn Gould; and Beethoven:
The Universal Composer (2005). Morris has written extensively
for such publications as The New Yorker, The New York Times,
and Harper’s and is a frequent lecturer at universities and other
cultural venues.
9:05 – 9:15
Audience Q&A
9:15 - 10:15
Roundtable Panel Discussion
Moderator:
William Taubman
Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus,
Amherst College and Author, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
Panelists:
Richard Goldberg, retired Social Studies Teacher, Brookline High School
William Taubman is the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political
Science Emeritus at Amherst College. He’s the author of
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (2003), which won the Pulitzer
Prize for biography in 2004 and the National Book Critics Circle
Award for Biography in 2003. Professor Taubman has written and
contributed on numerous books about the political leadership
of the Soviet Union, including Nikita Khrushchev co-editor with
Sergei Khrushchev and Abbott Gleason (2000); Khrushchev on
Khrushchev, editor and translator with Sergei N. Khrushchev
(1990); Moscow Spring co-authored with Jane Taubman (1989);
and Stalin’s American Policy: From Entente to Detente to Cold War
(1982).
Robert Kostka, retired Social Studies Teacher, Bridgewater-Raynham High
School and past President, Massachusetts Council for the Social Studies
Thomas Putnam, Director, John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum
Harry Wu, Founder and Executive Director, Laogai Research Foundation
10:15 – 10:25
Audience Q&A
10:25 – 10:45
Book Signing