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Pints and Presidents

Pints and Presidents

Pints and Presidents

Douglas A. Blackmon, William Hitchcock

Wednesday, July 19, 2017
5:00PM - 7:00PM (EDT)
Event Details

An informal conversation among voters, activists, scholars, candidates, and anyone who cares about politics, the presidency, and Virginia, hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning political journalist Douglas Blackmon, host of the Miller Center's nationally broadcast American Forum TV program.

Blackmon's special guest will be Miller Center historian William Hitchcock, whose new biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, The Age of Eisenhower, will be published next spring.

Free pint glasses and first beer free to the first 60 people to RSVP to Kate Huber. Discounted prices available after first free beer. 

 

When
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
5:00PM - 7:00PM (EDT)
Where
Kardinal Hall
722 Preston Ave.
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Speakers
Douglas Blackmon

Douglas A. Blackmon

Douglas A. Blackmon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II , and co-executive producer of the acclaimed PBS documentary of the same name. He is also executive producer and host of American Forum, the Miller Center's weekly public affairs program aired on more than 200 public television affiliates across the U.S.

Hitchcock

William Hitchcock

William I. Hitchcock is professor of history at the University of Virginia. His work and teaching focuses on the international, diplomatic and military history of the 20th Century, with a particular focus on the era of the world wars and the Cold War. He has written widely on trans-Atlantic relations and European history and politics.

Pints and Presidents