Marc J. Selverstone

Marc J. Selverstone

E-mail: selverstone@virginia.edu

Phone: 434-243-8983

Marc Selverstone is an assistant professor with the Presidential Recordings Program. He joined the Miller Center in November 2000 after receiving his Ph.D. in U.S. Foreign Relations from Ohio University. Previously, he received a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University. His interests include U.S. foreign relations post-1945, the culture of the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. He is author of the forthcoming Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950 (Harvard University Press, 2009), and The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Harvard University Press, under contract)

At the Miller Center, his work focuses on the recordings of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, with a special emphasis on their foreign policy, particularly that involving Vietnam. He is the former executive editor of AmericanPresident.org and currently directs the PRP's Digital Classroom Initiative, a teacher-dedicated portal for the Miller Center's White House Tapes web site. He works regularly with secondary school teachers to incorporate the presidential recordings into their classroom activities.

Miller Center Projects

Marc is part of the team of scholars transcribing and editing the secret White House tapes made by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. In addition Marc directs the Presidential Recordings Program's "Digital Classroom Initiative," which seeks to help secondary school teachers incorporate material from the Program into their learning activities. He is former executive editor of AmericanPresident.org. He is also a co-editor of the University of Virginia Multimedia Guide to the Virginia and U.S. History Standards of Learning, a project co-sponsored by the Miller Center and the Virginia Center for Digital History.

Selected Publications

• Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950, (Harvard University Press, 2008).
• The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitments to Vietnam (under contract, Harvard University Press).
• The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, vol. IV, associate editor (New York: W.W. Norton), in progress.
• The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy, vol. V, co-editor (New York: W.W. Norton), in progress.
• "JFK Lessons for Iraq," Boston Globe, March 9, 2006.
• "Doctrines," Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd. edition, vol 1, Richard Dean Burns, Alexander DeConde and Fredrik Logevall, eds., (New York: Scribner's, 2001), pp. 521–41.
• "The Past is More than Prologue: Reflections on the Cold War and the War on Terror," Passport: The Newsletter of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations vol. 37, no. 1 (April 2006), pp. 4–8.
• "Policy in the Making: A Look Inside the White House at War," The OAH Magazine of History, October 2004, pp. 63–64.

Course List

• HIUS 352, United States Diplomatic History Since 1914
• HIST 352, The Second World War
• HIST 353, The Cold War
• HIUS 401D, America in Vietnam