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On October 27, 2015, German TV editor Carl-Ludwig Paeschke screened his documentary "Germany: Hurry Fatherland. How Unity Came to Be," outlining the developments from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to Unification in October 1990. Preceding the screening, Dr. Brittany Lehman, Professor Konrad Jarausch and Professor Klaus Larres joined the director in a round table discussion entitled "From Hitler to Merkel: the US & Germany from 1945 to 2015." The forum (part of the "World Affairs" The Cold War and Beyond" lecture series) is organized by the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professorship in the Department of History and the College of Arts and Sciences, with support at UNC from the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense (PWAD), UNC Global, as well as from the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), the Center for European Studies (CES), and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies.
On October 27, 2015, German TV editor Carl-Ludwig Paeschke screened his documentary "Germany: Hurry Fatherland. How Unity Came to Be," outlining the developments from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to Unification in October 1990. Preceding the screening, Dr. Brittany Lehman, Professor Konrad Jarausch and Professor Klaus Larres joined the director in a round table discussion entitled "From Hitler to Merkel: the US & Germany from 1945 to 2015." The forum (part of the "World Affairs" The Cold War and Beyond" lecture series) is organized by the Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professorship in the Department of History and the College of Arts and Sciences, with support at UNC from the Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense (PWAD), UNC Global, as well as from the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS), the Center for European Studies (CES), and the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies.










![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.
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