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John Lewis Gaddis, "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience"
This lecture was originally recorded on VHS.
12 May 2003
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Introductions by :
Richard Zeitlin (1945-2008): Director of Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Jeremi Suri: Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
John Lewis Gaddis: is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy, biography, and historical methods. His most recent books include The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), The Cold War: A New History (2005), a new edition of Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (2005), George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), and On Grand Strategy (2018). Professor Gaddis has received two awards for undergraduate teaching at Yale, as well as the National Humanities Medal and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
John Lewis Gaddis, "Surprise, Security, and the American Experience"
This lecture was originally recorded on VHS.
12 May 2003
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Introductions by :
Richard Zeitlin (1945-2008): Director of Wisconsin Veterans Museum
Jeremi Suri: Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin
John Lewis Gaddis: is Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, where he teaches courses on the Cold War, grand strategy, biography, and historical methods. His most recent books include The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past (2002), Surprise, Security, and the American Experience (2004), The Cold War: A New History (2005), a new edition of Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (2005), George F. Kennan: An American Life (2011), and On Grand Strategy (2018). Professor Gaddis has received two awards for undergraduate teaching at Yale, as well as the National Humanities Medal and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Sponsored by:
George L. Mosse Program in History
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of History
Wisconsin Veterans Museum
