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On October 28, 2014 Robert Litvak from the Woodrow Wilson Center delivered a lecture, "Global Nuclear Threats: Iran and North Korea – What to Do about Them?" This lecture is part of a series with eminent scholars organized by the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professorship at UNC-Chapel Hill in cooperation with the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense (PWAD), the Department of History, the UNC Center for European Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC Global, and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS).
On October 28, 2014 Robert Litvak from the Woodrow Wilson Center delivered a lecture, "Global Nuclear Threats: Iran and North Korea – What to Do about Them?" This lecture is part of a series with eminent scholars organized by the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professorship at UNC-Chapel Hill in cooperation with the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense (PWAD), the Department of History, the UNC Center for European Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities, UNC Global, and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS).




![Prof. Larres in Conversation with Prof. Nancy MacLean
Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a thoroughly researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and political history.” Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” http://bit.ly/2oJklds.
A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. MacLean is the author of four other books, including Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006) called by the Chicago Tribune contemporary history at its best,” and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan, named a New York Times noteworthy book of 1994.
Her articles and review essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Boston Review, Feminist Studies, Gender & History, In These Times, International Labor and Working-Class History, Labor, Labor History, Journal of American History, Journal of Women’s History, Law and History Review, The Nation, the OAH Magazine of History, and many edited collections.
Professor MacLean’s scholarship has received more than a dozen prizes and awards and been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships Foundation.
In 2010, she was elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians, which recognizes literary distinction in the writing of history and biography. Also an award-winning teacher and committed graduate student mentor, she offers courses on twentieth-century America, social movements, and public policy history.
For more videos in the Krasno Events Series, please check out : https://www.youtube.com/user/KrasnoUNC For other similar events, please check out: www.krasnoevents.com Prof. Larres in Conversation with Prof. Nancy MacLean](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PwSlTVLCquM/mqdefault.jpg)





![Nancy MacLean on Democracy In Chains | Jan 16th, 2020
Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S., whose new book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, has been described by Publishers Weekly as “a thoroughly researched and gripping narrative… [and] a feat of American intellectual and political history.”
Booklist called it “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” http://bit.ly/2oJklds.
A finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, it won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Current Interest, the Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. MacLean is the author of four other books, including Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2006) called by the Chicago Tribune contemporary history at its best,” and Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan, named a New York Times noteworthy book of 1994.
Her articles and review essays have appeared in American Quarterly, The Boston Review, Feminist Studies, Gender & History, In These Times, International Labor and Working-Class History, Labor, Labor History, Journal of American History, Journal of Women’s History, Law and History Review, The Nation, the OAH Magazine of History, and many edited collections.
Professor MacLean’s scholarship has received more than a dozen prizes and awards and been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships Foundation.
In 2010, she was elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians, which recognizes literary distinction in the writing of history and biography. Also an award-winning teacher and committed graduate student mentor, she offers courses on twentieth-century America, social movements, and public policy history.
For more videos in the Krasno Events Series, please check out : https://www.youtube.com/user/KrasnoUNC For other similar events, please check out: www.krasnoevents.com Nancy MacLean on Democracy In Chains | Jan 16th, 2020](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RA0nfoVMKKs/mqdefault.jpg)