Screening of “Lincoln”

Wednesday, February 12, 6:00 p.m. | Hester Auditorium

Screening of “Lincoln” and Discussion with Jonathan A. Noyalas,M.A., director of Shenandoah University’s McCormick Civil War Institute.

Clifford Thies, “Great Presidents: Scholars vs. the People”

Thursday, February 26, 7:00 p.m. |  Stimpson Auditorium, Halpin-Harrison Hall

Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations

Wednesday, March 18, 6:30 p.m. |  Hester Auditorium

Presented by Patricia O’Toole, John Milton Cooper, JR. and Thomas J. Knock. Discussion facilitated by MCWI’s director Jonathan A. Noyalas.

PATRICIA O’TOOLE
Patricia O’Toole is Professor Emerita at the School of the Arts at Columbia University. O’Toole is the author of five books, including The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made; When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt after the White House; and The Five of Hearts: An Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A fellow of the Society of American Historians, she lives in Camden, Maine.

JOHN MILTON COOPER, JR
Dr. John Milton Cooper is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin. A native of Washington D.C., Cooper received his B.A. from Princeton University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Dr. Cooper started his career at Wellesley College before moving to the University of Wisconsin, where he served as the chair of the history department and was the E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions. Dr. Cooper is the author of several books including Vanity of Power: American Isolationism and the First World War 1914-1917; Walter Hines Page: The Southerner as American, 1855-1918; The Warrior and The Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt; Breaking the Heart of the World: Woodrow Wilson and the Fight for the League of Nations; and Woodrow Wilson: A Biography which was a Pulitzer Prize Finalist.

Dr. Cooper is a member of several organizations including the American History Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern History Association, the Wisconsin State Historical Society, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is the Honorary President of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation.

THOMAS J. KNOCK
Thomas J. Knock is Professor of History and Chair of the Clements Department of History at Southern Methodist University as well as and Distinguished Fellow at SMU’s Center for Presidential History. He teaches courses on 20th century US politics and foreign policy. He received his PhD in History from Princeton University. Knock’s principal works are To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order (Princeton University Press, New Edition, 2019; originally published byOxford) which won the Warren F. Kuehl Prize, awarded by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations; and The Rise of a Prairie Statesman, The Life and Times of George McGovern (Princeton, 2016), which won the 2017 PROSE Award for Biography from the Association of American Publishers. In addition, he is the co-author of The Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the 21st Century (Princeton, 2009); and the co-editor (with John Milton Cooper, Jr.) of Jefferson, Lincoln, and Wilson: The American Dilemma of Race and Democracy (University of Virginia Press, 2010); and (with Jeffrey Engel) of When Life Strikes the President: Scandal, Death, and Illness in the White House (Oxford University Press, 2017). He serves on the Editorial Board of Presidential Studies Quarterly and the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library.

Screening of “Thirteen Days”

Tuesday, March 24, 6:00 p.m. | Hester Auditorium

Screening of “Thirteen Days” and Discussion with Jeff Coker, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Panel Discussion, “What Makes a Great President”

Wednesday, April 22, 7:00 p.m. | Washington, D.C. campus of NYU (1307 L St NW, Washington, DC 20005)

Join event with Shenandoah University and Oxford University Society of D.C.
This event is free to the public and we encourage students, family and friends to attend. If you have any questions or would like more information, please reach out to Tessa Gordon at tclimer10@su.edu.

Panel includes:
Michael Kessler, PhD, JD
Georgetown University, Managing Director of the Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Associate Professor of the Practice of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law

Michael K. Fauntroy, PhD
Howard University College of Arts and Sciences, Associate Professor of Political Science, Acting Director of the Ronald W. Walters Leadership and Public Policy Center

Suzanne Kianpour
Non-Resident Senior Fellow Atlantic Council, Foreign Affairs and Political Journalist, Public Diplomacy Lecturer at UCLA

Jeffrey Coker, PhD
Shenandoah University, Dean of The College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of History

Moderator:
Glenn Østen Anderson, MFA, MSt
Shenandoah University, Assistant Professor of Media and Communications , Student media advisor, Freelance journalist and documentary producer