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American Forum

American Forum

The Age of Eisenhower

William Hitchcock

Tuesday, February 20, 2018
11:00AM - 12:15PM (EST)

Event Details

American Forum

PBS World Channel National Broadcast: Virginia, March 4, 2018/Nationally, March 7, 2018

On Tuesday, February 20, history professor, William Hitchcock, joins host Doug Blackmon for the last American Forum to discuss the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower and America in the 1950s.

 

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When
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
11:00AM - 12:15PM (EST)
Where
The Miller Center
2201 Old Ivy Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Speakers
William Hitchcock

William Hitchcock

William I. Hitchcock is a professor of history at the University of Virginia and the Randolph Compton Professor at the Miller Center. A graduate of Kenyon College and Yale University, he is the author of The Bitter Road to Freedom: The Human Cost of Allied Victory in World War II Europe, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.

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