The Cold War & the Middle East in the Late 20th Century

Peter Hahn, executive director of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and chair of Ohio State University's history department, will consider America's foreign relations with the Middle East over the past 50 years.
When Mar 07, 2012
from 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM
Where Chao Auditorium, University of Louisville
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Contact Phone 502-852-8811
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Peter L. Hahn, chair of the history department at Ohio State University, will deliver a free and public lecture about America's foreign policy during the Cold War and with the Middle East in the late 20th century.

Hahn is the author of Missions Accomplished?: The United States and Iraq since World War I (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Crisis and Crossfire: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 (Potomac Books, 2005), among others.

Hahn's lecture is March 7, from 6 to 7 p.m., at the University of Louisville's Chao Auditorium located in Ekstrom Library (directions).

The McConnell Center offers this free and public event as part of its year-long history project, "Remembering America: From Colonization to the Cold War."

About the Lecturer

Hahn is the chair of the history department at Ohio State University. His research has been supported by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Truman Library Institute, the John F. Kennedy Library, the Lyndon Johnson Foundation, the Eisenhower World Affairs Institute, the Office of the United States Air Force History and the U.S. Army Center of Military History. He has lectured across the United States and in Britain, France, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Austria, Russia and Israel. Hahn earned his doctorate from Vanderbilt University.

About the McConnell Center

The McConnell Center offers this Civic Education Program to the public free of charge. The non-profit, non-partisan program was established to assist Kentucky citizens develop a better understanding of the American Constitution and American history and encourage open and free discussion of perennial concerns that inform contemporary politics.