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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of
Independent Colleges
Announce a Seminar for Historians
"Interpreting the History of Recent and Controversial Events"
June 21-23, 2005, Harvard University
Nomination Deadline: Monday, April 18, 2005
Directed by Ernest R. May, Charles Warren Professor of American
History, Harvard University
The Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History are pleased to announce the fourth annual seminar
for CIC faculty members in history and related fields. This year’s
seminar will focus on “Interpreting the History of Recent and Controversial
Events.” The seminar will be directed by Ernest R. May, Charles
Warren Professor of American History at Harvard University. For those
accepted to participate in the seminar, all expenses of participation
except travel to and from Cambridge will be covered by the Gilder Lehrman
Institute.
During the intensive three-day seminar, participants will consider the
issue that historians studying the recent past must use and evaluate sources
not available to historians studying earlier periods. This seminar will
deal with examples involving files from intelligence agencies, secret
voice recordings, and videography and digital imaging. It will end with
consideration of the 9/11 Commission report, which provides a very recent
example of the age-old problem of comparing written and oral sources and
an example, as well, of the challenge of matching history and memory.
Ernest R. May is Charles Warren Professor of American History at Harvard
University and a member of the board of directors of the Belfer Center
for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government. He has been a consultant at various times to the Office of
the Secretary of Defense, the National Security Council, and other agencies.
He is currently a member of the DCI's Intelligence Science Board and of
the Board of Visitors of the Joint Military Intelligence College. May
has been Dean of Harvard College, Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts
and Sciences, Director of the Institute of Politics, and Chair of the
Department of History. His publications include Thinking in Time:
The Uses of History for Decision-Makers (with Richard Neustadt);
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile
Crisis (with Philip D. Zelikow); and Strange Victory: Hitler's
Conquest of France.
Click here to view the Gilder
Lehrman History Seminar Announcement. (This is
a PDF file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement
is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe
Web site.)
Click here for
information on previous Gilder Lehrman Seminars.
Click
here for other resources found at the Gilder Lehrman Institute's
website.
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