Upcoming Events
 Daniel Preston |
A Virginia Dynasty? James Monroe and the Presidential Elections of 1816…Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 11:00amDANIEL F. PRESTON is Editor of The Papers of James Monroe at the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. His articles include "James Monroe: Occasional Lawyer" in America's Lawyer-Presidents: From Law Office to the Oval Office (Northwestern University Press, 2004) and "James Monroe" in The American Presidents (Readers Digest, 2001). Preston has delivered numerous presentations and conference papers on James Monroe and other historical figures, and his awards include a fellowship at the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at Keele University (United Kingdom) and a Mellon Fellowship Grant from the Virginia Historical Society. We will have a book signing of his recent book James Monrow: An Illustrated History. This is the annual Gordon and Mary Beth Smyth Forum on American History. |
 Michael Smith |
Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human…Monday, December 08, 2008 - 11:00amMICHAEL JOSEPH SMITH has written extensively on the ethical dilemmas raised by contemporary international politics, most recently contributing to the United Nations International Commission on Sovereignty and Intervention. He is the Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought and Associate Professor of Politics at U.Va. He has taught as an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard, and came to U.Va. in 1986, where he currently directs the interdisciplinary, undergraduate program in Political and Social Thought. He is the author of Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger (Louisiana State University Press, 1986), and co-author and co-editor (with Linda B. Miller) of Ideas and Ideals: Essays on Politics in Honor of Stanley Hoffman (Westview Press, 1993). |
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