Roundtable Cultural Seminars–Fall 2014
The United States and 20th Century International Conflicts
I am from Higgins Beach, in Scarborough, Maine, six miles south of Portland. After spending five years as track announcer at Scarborough Downs, I left to study fulltime in graduate school, where my advisor was Akira Iriye. My B.A. (1988) and Ph.D. (1993) come from Harvard, my M.A. from the University of Chicago (1989). Before coming to Brooklyn College & the CUNY Graduate Center, I taught at Arizona State and Williams; I also have served as a visiting professor at Harvard (2005) and at Tel Aviv University (2007-8), as Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities.
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Below are links to the PowerPoints (and other material) for each session:
Session 1: The Imperialist Surge
Session 2: World War I
–BBC, World War I centennial
–PBS, The Great War
Session 3: World War II
–BBC, World War II
PowerPoint4: The Cold War
—Cold War International History Project
–BBC, The Cold War
Session 5:: The Vietnam War
–Vassar College, Vietnam War project
–American Experience, Vietnam Online
–Vietnam War, digital history
Session 6: Post-Cold War Conflicts
–Frontline, Gulf War
–BBC, Balkans Wars
KC Johnson 