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Professor Hitchcock lectured about the U.S. foreign policy strategy of containment between 1946-1950. After World War II, President Harry Truman initiated policies to prevent the spread of c…

University of Virginia History Professor William Hitchcock discussed presidential leadership during the Cold War-era and the Cold War’s lasting impact. He is the author of The Age of Eisenho…

University of Virginia Professor William Hitchcock talked about his book, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s. Later, Mr. Hitchcock spoke with former ABC News White Hou…

University of Virginia history professor William Hitchcock recalled the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower.

Five historians who have written about U.S. presidents and the presidency discussed the challenges and importance of writing presidential biographies. This Society for Historians of American…

Professor William Hitchcock talked about his book, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.

John Farrell, Richard Nixon, Will Hitchcock, The Age of Eisenhower, and Sharon Weinberger, The Imagineers of War, talked about the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. This e…

The University of Virginia’s Miller Center convened scholars for a two-day conference looking at the complicated history between U.S. and Russian leaders over the last century. The discussio…

Presidential historians Bill Antholis, Barbara Perry, and William Hitchcock offered advice to President Donald Trump for his first year in office. The Miller Center is a non-partisan academi…

Historians discussed former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s relationship with U.S. presidents during his tenure. “Churchill and the Presidents” was a panel at the Churchill Cen…

Scholars talked about the differences in leadership styles between Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, as well as President Dwight Eisenhower’s ideology, and how it guided his de…

Mr. Hitchcock discusses his book The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 - 2002, published by Doubleday. The book, a historical survey of modern Europe, a…