Past Speakers
The following is a selected list of the many speakers and seminar guests who have visited Ohio University under Institute auspices:

• Joyce Appleby, UCLA professor emerita of history, offered her views on "Congress and War Declarations: What Does it Mean to Silently Amend the Constitution?" in May 2003.
  
  
• Peter Arnett, Cable News Network, visited the Institute in May 1996 and spoke on his experiences covering war and diplomacy.
  
  
• Jeremy Black, the University of Exeter's prolific European military historian, discussed "War and Politics in the Modern World" in February 2003.
  
  
• Jimmy Carter visited the campus for a public lecture in May 1989 and met with Institute students in a separate session.
  
  
• Juan Cole, professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan, discussed the "Historical Roots of the War on Terror" in a March 2005 presentation.
  
  
• Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University, spoke to faculty and graduate students about “The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France” in April 2001.
  
  
• Sattareh Farman-Farmaian, a Qajar princess in 1921 before the takeover by the Shah and author of Daughter of Persia, visited CHI in May 1998 to offer her views on Iranian history and politics.
  
  
• Carole Fink, professor of 20th-century European international history at Ohio State University, offered CHI students a preview of her book Defending the Rights of Others: International Minority Protection in Europe in February 2004.
  
  
• Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, visited CHI in January 2005 to offer his thoughts on "Understanding the Red States."
  
  
• John Kenneth Galbraith, emeritus professor of economics at Harvard University, spoke at the Institute in October 1993.
  
  
• General John R. Galvin, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander of U.S. armed forces in Europe presented an October 1994 CHI seminar discussion on “The U.S. Military in Latin America” and returned in May 1995 to talk about “The Nature of Leadership.”
  
  
• Todd Gitlin, professor of sociology at New York University, met with Institute students in February 1996 after giving an Elizabeth Evans Baker lecture entitled, “Do We Live in a Global Village?”
  
  
• Doris Kearns Goodwin, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, held a special seminar with CHI students in October 1995.
  
  
• Beate Sirota Gordon, who, as a member of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's US Army of Occupation staff, participated in the writing of Japan's post-war constitution, visited the Institute in February 2002 to discuss her experiences in drafting the constitution's articles on women's rights.
  
  
• Oleg Grinevsky, a former Soviet security adviser to the Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, and Gorbachev governments, and Russian ambassador to Sweden from 1991 to 1997, delivered a September 2001 CHI presentation on “National Missile Defense from a Russian Perspective,” along with observations on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States.
  
  
• Gerald Haines, chief historian of the Central Intelligence Agency, presented a CHI talk on "The CIA and the Technological Collection Revolution" in January 2002.
  
  
• Tom Hayden, California State Senator and former 1960s activist, spoke on several topics involving the ‘60s during a week-long visit to Ohio University in October 1997.
  
  
• Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, professor of history at the University of San Diego lectured on “All You Need is Love: the Peace Corps and the 60s” in May 1998.
  
  
• Michael Hogan, professor of history at Ohio State University, gave a talk in February 1999 entitled “Garrison State: Harry Truman and the Origin of the National Security State.”
  
  
• Walter Isaacson, senior editor, Time magazine, visited the Institute in May 1990 to discuss the relationship between history and journalism.
  
  
• Lawrence Kaplan, director emeritus of the Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO, presented a lecture entitled “Does NATO Have a Future?” in April 1999.
  
  
• George F. Kennan, spent a morning with the seminar in October 1988, reminiscing about his years in government and discussing Soviet-American relations.
  
  
• Paul Kennedy, professor of history at Yale University, discussed his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers with CHI seminar students in March 1989. Professor Kennedy returned to the Institute in May 1992 to discuss his next book, Preparing for the 21st Century, and again in May 1995 and May 1997 to participate in CHI seminars.
  
  
• Stanley I. Kutler, the E. Gordon Fox Emeritus Professor of American Institutions at the University of Wisconsin and author of Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes, spoke with CHI students in November 1998.
  
  
• Richard Ned Lebow, director of the Mershon Center at Ohio State University, spoke to a CHI audience in April 2002 on the value of counterfactuals in the writing of history.
  
  
• William Leuchtenburg, Kenan Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, discussed “The Election of 2000” with CHI students and faculty in October 2000.
  
  
• Fredrik Logevall, professor of history at Cornell University, and author of the prize-winning 1999 book Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam, presented an October 2001 talk on “The Mystery of the Vietnam War.” He returned in May 2005 to discuss "America Alone? The Implications of the Current Unilateralism."
  
  
• Mary Matalin, deputy manager of George Bush, Sr.’s 1992 presidential campaign, visited in April 1993 to discuss the election of 1992.
  
  
• Jack and Rebecca Matlock participated in an April 1992 Institute-sponsored discussion of their years in Moscow during Jack Matlock’s tenure as United States ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-91.
  
  
• Elaine Tyler May, professor of American studies at the University of Minnesota, gave a lecture in March 1997 on “A Century of ‘Family Values’: Politics and Private Life in 20th-Century America.”
  
  
• David McCullough, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Truman, gave a seminar in March 1995 on the art of biography.
  
  
• William H. McNeill, emeritus professor of history at the University of Chicago, presented a seminar in January 1990 on generalization in history along with a public lecture on “Winds of Change in International Affairs.” He returned in February 1996 to deliver an Elizabeth Evans Baker lecture on “Diplomatic Communication and Human Communication” and to hold a special seminar for Institute students and faculty.
  
  
• Timothy Naftali of the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs discussed Khrushchev's Cold War strategies in a February 2003 CHI presentation.
  
  
• Ron Nessen, White House Press Secretary during the Ford administration, visited the Institute in October 2003 for a talk on "The White House and the Press: Observations from a Man Who's Been on Both Sides of the Podium."
  
  
• Peter Novick, professor emeritus of history at the University of Chicago, conducted a seminar in April 2001 on “The Holocaust in American Culture.”
  
  
• Don Oberdorfer, senior correspondent of the Washington Post, visited the Institute in February 1992 to discuss his book The Turn, which covers the evolution of Soviet-American relations from 1983 to 1990.
  
  
• Richard Pipes, professor of history at Harvard University, spoke on “Communism: An Obituary” as the History Department’s annual Costa Lecturer in October 1992; he also held a special seminar for Institute students and faculty.
  
  
• Stephen Rabe, professor of history at the University of Texas-Dallas, discussed his book The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America in February 1999.
  
  
• Emily Rosenberg, professor of history at Macalester College, lectured in September 1992 on gender in international relations and returned in November 1997 to speak on “Dollar Diplomacy Revisited: Narratives of Money and Masculinity.”
  
  
• Robert Rosenstone, professor of history at Cal Tech University, gave a talk in October 1996 on “The Future of the Past: Film and the Beginnings of Postmodern History.”
  
  
• Ellen Schrecker, Yeshiva College, spoke at the Institute in May 1999. Her topic was “The Age of McCarthyism: Anti-Communist Political Repression in Modern America.”
  
  
• Ann Firor Scott, professor emeritus of history at Duke University, presented a lecture on “The Intertwined History of Black and White Women,” in September 2000.
  
  
• Tony Smith, Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, visited in May 1997 for a discussion of “The United States and Global Democratization.”
  
  
• Sander Vanocur, veteran NBC news journalist, spoke in May 2000 on “Can Democracy Survive the Mass Media?”
  
  
• Wang Gungwu, director of the National University of Singapore's East Asian Institute and one of the world's leading authorities on Chinese history, offered a presentation on "Systems and Cultures: A Perspective on Recent Chinese History" in May 2004.
  
  
• Kathryn Weathersby of the Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discussed “Stalin and the Korean War: New Evidence from the Russian Archives,” in April 2001.
  
  
• Allen Weinstein, President of The Center for Democracy, gave a talk in October 1999 on “Soviet Espionage in the Stalin Years.”
  
  
• Howard J. Wiarda, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, visited the Institute in January 2002 to assess the nature of "Democracy in Latin America."
  
  
• Gordon Wood, professor of history at Brown University, discussed "The American Revolutionary Tradition and the World" in November 2002.