Twentieth Century Conflicts in U.S. History—Franklin Roosevelt to George H.W. Bush will feature
Dr. Mark Lawrence, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Dr Lawrence is author of Assuming the Burden: Europe and the American Commitment to War in Vietnam (which won two awards from the American Historical Association: the Paul Birdsall Prize for European military and strategic history and the George Louis Beer Prize for European international history. He has also written several chapters and articles on the Vietnam War and other topics in U.S. diplomatic history. He is currently at work on a study of U.S. policymaking regarding Third World nationalism in the 1960s and a short history of the Vietnam War. He is also co-editor (with Fredrik Logevall of Cornell University) of The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and Cold War Crisis, a volume of essays about the French war in Indochina.
Speakers from the Roosevelt Library (World War II), the Truman Library (World War II), the Eisenhower Library (Korea), the Kennedy Library (Bay of Pigs), the LBJ Library (Vietnam), and the Bush Library (the Gulf War)
Primary source materials will be featured in related topics.
Registration fee includes: Breakfast, Lunch and Dr. Lawrence's new book!