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Cross Lecture - Will Hitchcock, “It Can’t Happen Here: American Perceptions of Fascism and the Global Crisis of the 1930s”

Date: October 23, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute

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Ross Lecture - Thomas Sugrue

Date: April 8, 2027

Time: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Location: Auditorium of the Harrison Institute

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Causes Won and Lost

Causes Won and Lost

Elizabeth R. Varon

Virginia Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War (2015)

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Penny Von Eschen

Duke University Press (2022)

The Human Rights Revolution

The Human Rights Revolution

William Hitchcock

Oxford University Press, USA (2012)