Post Tagged with: "Cold War"

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Contemporary History Institute, delivers a talk on Thursday, April 25, at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Center 242. Titled “Maxwell Taylor’s Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam,” the talk draws on Trauschweizer’s recently-published book of the same title, an intellectual […]

By Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer Associate Professor of History & Director of the Contemporary History Institute The Contemporary History Institute hosts the 2019 Baker Peace Conference on March 28-29, 2019. Our theme this year is “Temple of Peace? International Cooperation and World Order since 1945.” The keynote is at 7:30 pp.m. […]

Dr. Ziad Abu-Rish, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was part of a Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars panel discussion marking the launch of the History and Public Policy Program’s latest addition to its digital archive: The Emir Farid Chehab Collection. According to a Wilson Center announcement, The Emir […]

Dr. John Brobst, Associate Professor in the History Department, published “‘No Scope for Arms Control’: Strategy, Geography, and Naval Limitations in the Indian Ocean in the 1970s,” in Strategy and the Sea: Essays in Honour of John B. Hattendorf, edited by N. A. M. Rodger, J. Ross Dancy, Benjamin Darnell, and […]

Dr. Ingo Trauschweizer, Associate Professor of History, recently published several pieces of scholarship based on his ongoing research in U.S. military and diplomatic history. “Adapt and Survive: NATO in the Cold War,” in Grand Strategy and Military Alliances,  is edited by Peter R. Mansoor and Williamson Murray (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, […]

The Contemporary History Institute welcomes one of its own, Tyler Esno, who will be speaking on Thursday, April 21, at 4:30 pm in Baker 242. Esno, a graduate student in History, holds the Baker Peace Dissertation Fellowship this year. His talk, titled “Reagan’s Economic Cold War,” challenges accusations that the Reagan administration sought […]

The Society for Military History and the First Division Museum at Cantigny has awarded Seth Givens, Ph.D. student in the History Department, the Kevin J. Carroll Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in Military History. Givens received the award for “‘The Defense of Berlin Starts at the Mekong’: Lyndon Johnson and […]