Faculty:

Valerie French was interviewed by USA Today-Live! on why Alexander the Great remains a popular but elusive subject of historical study.

Alan Kraut was presented with the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Goldberger's War, named the best book in the history of public health for 2004 at the annual American Public Health Association meeting. He gave the keynote address, "History of Immigrant Health in the USA," at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene annual meeting. He gave a guest lecture entitled, "America and the Holocaust: A Chapter in U.S. Immigration History" at the University of Denver. Voice of America interviewed Alan regarding immigrant contributions to the US economy, and PBS interviewed him for an upcoming special entitled "Global Health." Alan is expanding his consulting role on PBS's program, "History Detectives" for the 2005 season.

Peter Kuznick published an article entitled, "Whitewashing History: The Smithsonian's New Enola Gay Exhibit," in Nagasaki Peace Studies Journal. He organized a Whistleblowers' Symposium which was filed and recorded by Democracy Now, German public television, Greek TV, WPFW, and a file crew from documentary filmmaker Robert Greenwald. He gave the opening plenary address, "Hiroshima, Nuclear Proliferation, and the Culture of Fear," at the conference on "The Second Nuclear Age: Nuclear Weapons, The New Terrorism, The Culture of Fear," at John Jay College. He gave interviews on the presidential election (Radio Free Europe, St. Petersburg Times), about the origins and meaning of the Star Spangled Banner and how it became the national anthem (La Reforma), on the significance of conservative trends in American society and politics (O Estado de S. Paulo Brazil), and comparing U.S. wartime mistreatment of prisoners with wartime mistreatment of prisoners by other nations (Radio Free Europe).

Eric Lohr published an article entitled, "Novye dokumenty o Rossiiskoi Armii i evreiakh vo vremena Pervoi mirovoi voiny," Vestnik evreiskogo universiteta v Moskve. He also participated in the panel, "Cross-Cultural Encounters: Russian Emigre Intellectuals and their Adopted Societies in the Twentieth Century," American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies national conference.

Allan Lichtman gave an interview with Voice of America about how America selects its presidents. He was a historical commentator on CNN's coverage of the opening of the Clinton Presidential Library. He was quoted in the Shawnee News-Star in an article regarding tax simplification; in St. Mary's Today about campaign visibility and costs; in the Sanford Herald regarding President Bush's cabinet.

Pamela Nadell was quoted in the Connecticut Jewish Ledger and the Charlotte Observer and other newspapers about the American Jewish exhibit, "From Haven to Home," at the Library of Congress.

Bernice Johnson Reagon was the subject of an article in the Long Island Newday regarding the "Temptation of St. Anthony," an operetta she co-created.

Students

Teresa Brown presented "'From the Oldest Civilization of the East to the Youngest of the West': Amelia Edwards' American Lecture Tour, 1889-1890," at the November Lunch Bunch.

Alumni/ae

Christine Gessler (PhD 2002) was appointed to teach in an online program to earn a history degree, University of Maryland University College.

Robert Wilensky published Military Medicine to Win Hearts and Minds: Aid to Civilians in the Vietnam War with Texas Tech University Press, 2004.