“Tear Down This Wall!” Teaching the Cold War in Schools sponsored by: 185 Devonshire Street, Suite 1101, Boston, MA 02110 T: 617.723.2277 F: 617.723.1880 | www.pioneerinstitute.org 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
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