Events

The panic began in 1692, when a minister’s daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged.  I’ll be in conversation with the Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Véra, about the wild story of the Salem Witch Trials.  Her new book is The Witches.
LISTEN HERE  11/3/2015

“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America”
— UC Irvine School of Humanities Author Series, Tuesday, May 14, 2013:
Humanities Gateway 1010, 6:00pm.
Presented by the Office of the Dean, UC Irvine.
more info at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/SOH/calendar/detail.php?recid=4035&dept_code_val=all&file_name=events

“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.”
92nd Street Y Tribeca, 200 Hudston St., New York NY.
— talk followed by roundtable lunch discussion.  May 2, 2012

C-SPAN Book TV: live from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books “Cold War Hollywood” panel with Steve Ross and Richard Schickel, April 21, 2013: http://www.booktv.org/Program/14460/2013+Los+Angeles+Times+Festival+of+Books+Sunday.aspx

How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across America, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC.
Sunday April 21, 2012, 11:00am, “Cold War Hollywood” panel — Hancock Foundation auditorium.
info at http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks/program-schedule/

Remembering the Cold War:  “The Americans” on FX cable TV
“To the Point” with Warren Olney: NPR and KCRP, Thurs 1/31
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/tp/tp130131chuck_hagels_pentago

Conversation with Amy Wilentz, author of Farewell Fred Vodoo: A Letter from Haiti.
L.A. Public Library ALOUD series, Downtown library, 630 West Fifth St., Los Angeles, CA 90071.  Jan. 15, 2013, 7:00pm.
http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/800/Amy-Wilentz

“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America”  conversation on The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC – 93.9FM, a,820 in New York City — also on Sirius/XM satellite radio.  Dec. 11, 12:40-1:00pm in NYC.  streaming audio & podcast:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2012/dec/11/forgetting-cold-war/

“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.”  Talk, with comment by Robin Kelley.
UCLA Department of History, Bunche Hall 6th floor conference room. Monday Dec. 3, 3-5pm.  Sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History;  Co-sponsored with US History Colloquium.

“How We Forgot the Cold War”:  Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West.
The Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road,  San Marino, CA
Fri. Nov. 30, 12 noon, Seaver Classroom 3.