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March 2008
Faculty:
Peter Kuznick conducted an interview with Farsnews in Iran about the latest IAEA report on Iran's nuclear program and the prospects for passage of the new U.S.-backed sanctions at the United Nations. He gave two big lectures on the decision to drop the bomb to honors and IB students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. His article "Defending the Indefensible: A Meditation on the Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets" was published by Japan Focus in January. He also participated in a panel discussion as part of a program titled Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived sponsored by the American University Honors Program, along with James Blight and Janet Lang, the advisors to the new documentary film of that title.
Congratulations to Jim Percoco on the publication of his new book, Summers with Lincoln: Looking for the Man in the Monuments.
Congratulations to Andrew Yarrow on the publication of his new book, Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility by Yale University Press.Alumni/ae:
Monica Cousins Noraian just accepted the History Education tenure track assistant professor position in the History Department at Illinois State University.
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