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The second panel for “War’s End: Eyewitness to History,” a symposium commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, focused on a historical perspective of the events surrounding the end of the war.…

Mr. Larres talked about his book Churchill’s Cold War: The Politics of Personal Diplomacy, published by Yale University Press. During the talk, he explained how Churchill’s personal diplomatic meeting with…

Scholars and former government officials talked about the death in 1953 of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and the impact of his death on international politics. Among the topics they…

Mrs. Ogata talked about her book The Turbulent Decade: Confronting the Refugee Crises of the 1990s, published by W. W. Norton and Company. In the book she recounted her experiences and the…

The Library of Congress hosted a panel of persons who were involved at the time reviewed the 1970s foreign policy of Presidents Nixon and Ford, for whom Henry Kissinger served as national…

Václav Havel, playwright and one of Europe’s political, moral and intellectual leaders, will deliver a lecture titled “The Emperor Has No Clothes.” He and others focused on human rights…

Professor David M. Levy talked about the shift in the experience of reading from the fixed page to movable computer screens and the impact of the shift on language. Mr. Levy was the author of Scrolling…

Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave talked about her biography, Villard: The Life and Times of an American Titan, published by Doubleday. The book is a biography of the author’s great…

Ambassador Ferdinando Salleo talked about the importance and influence of Dante and his poetry. William Merwin then read from his translation of Dante’s Purgatorio and Robert Pinsky’s translation of…

Professor Micheal Kammen talked about the various interpretations of Tocqueville’s ideas and how they were used and misused. He examined why U.S. leaders have consistently reacted very positively…

Mr. Hass talked about his new responsibilities as Poet Laureate. He also talked about his literary career, including translating other poetry into English. He has written several books of…

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