Hoover Forum: Hoover, WWII and the Postwar
August 5, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
| FreeJoin us as three scholars examine and share their research around Hoover, World War II and the Postwar – Saturday afternoon during Hoover’s Hometown Days at the Hoover Presidential Library and Museum in the Figge Auditorium.
This event is free to attend. The panel discussion will take place at 2 p.m. and is expected to last until 5 p.m. The panel includes Justus Doenecke, Kevin Y. Kim and Sean McMeekin. The moderator is Bertrand M. Patenaude.
Bertrand M. Patenaude is a lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford university and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Author of many books on the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union, his prize-winning study, The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921 has inspired two exhibitions that he guest-curated. Patenaude’s most recent study was a centennial history of the Hoover Institution.
Justus Doenecke is an Emeritus Professor History from the New College of Florida where he served from 1969-2005. Previously, he served on the faculty of Colgate University and Ohio Wesleyan University. Doenecke taught specialized courses on World War I and II as well as the Cold War. Author or editor of a dozen books and numerous journal articles, Doenecke is best known for his writings on the Manchurian Crisis 1931-1933 and non-interventionists in the 1930s and 1940s. He has received the Arthur S. Link Prize for Documentary Editing by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for his book on the America First Committee and the Herbert Hoover Book Award in 2000 for his study on American anti-interventionism at the outset of World War II.
Kevin Y. Kim is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California at Los Angeles. He specializes in Korea and Northeast Asia as well as teaching US politics and diplomacy, the global Cold War and decolonization, dissent, and the history of capitalism. Author of numerous academic articles and popular journal pieces, Kim is seeking publication for his study, Worlds Unseen: Henry Wallace, Herbert Hoover, and the Making of Cold War America. He has received fellowships from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, the John W. Kluge Center, the Charles Warren Center for studies in American History, and the Hoover Institution’s Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell Fellowship.
Sean McMeekin is the Francis Flourney Professor of European History and Culture at Bard University. Author of numerous books on Russia, Germany and World War I, his most recent study, Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II places Joseph Stalin and his war aims, rather than Adolf Hitler, as the central focus. His writings have been recognized with honors such as the Arthur Goodzeit Book Prize, the Norman B. Tomlinson Jr. Book Prize, and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize.