John Lennon & George McGovern: TheNation 10/21

George McGovern died today; his 1972 campaign changed many lives, including John Lennon’s.  Lennon had moved to New York City in 1971, and it was his support for McGovern—who died Oct. 21 at age 90—that led the Nixon administration to try to deport the ex-Beatle. The story begins with Jerry Rubin. . .
…continued at TheNation.com HERE

Gore Vidal and Harvard: Inside Higher Ed., 10/19

Gore Vidal, who died in July, was one of our greatest novelists and essayists – and yet he never went to college. In a 2007 interview I asked him why not.

“I graduated from [Phillips] Exeter,” he explained, “and I was aimed at going to Harvard. Instead I enlisted in [the Navy] in 1943. When I got out, in ’46, I thought, ‘I’ve spent all my life in institutions that I loathe, including my service in the [Navy] of the United States.’ I thought, ‘Shall I go for another four years?’ . . . … continued at Inside Higher Ed., HERE.

Cold War Memory Q&A: CBSnews.com, 10/18

Jeff Glor:  What inspired you to write the book?
Jon Wiener:  I took the tour of the Nevada Test Site and wrote about it for the “Politics of Travel” issue of The Nation magazine. . . .
. . . continued at CBSnews.com HERE

UCLA History Dept.: Dec. 3

“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.