Brendan Lee, M.A.A “Chicken in a Fox House”: Robert F. Kennedy Speaks at the University of Mississippi, 1966 (DThe morning of March 18, 1966 was busier than usual in the small college town of Oxford, Mississippi. Students gathered at the local…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.A History of Graduate Education at the University of Mississippi (May 2020)In 1903, Historian and Civil Rights Activist W.E.B. Du Bois mused on what he described as the “Wings of Atlanta” in his collection of…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.The End of Idealism: UNRRA and the International New Deal in Europe (Dec 2019In November 1943, representatives of forty-four nations met at a historic summit in the east room of the White House to plan the…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.Cold War Origins: A Historiography (Dec 2The academic study of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union has sparked perhaps one of the most divisive debates in…Jan 22, 2023Jan 22, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.Henry A. Wallace: A HiHenry Agard Wallace is often considered one of the most polarizing figures in American political history. In his lifetime, Wallace served…Jan 21, 2023Jan 21, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.The American Century & The Century of the Common Man: Henry Luce, Henry Wallace, and Visions of…On October 31, 1945, Henry A. Wallace received a phone call from Congresswoman Claire Boothe Luce, informing him of her husband’s arrival…Jan 21, 2023Jan 21, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.Forgotten Allies: French Communists and the Anti-Fascist Movement in Europe 1935–1944 (May 2018)On a warm summer day in June of 1987, United States President Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall in Brandenburg, Germany and…Jan 21, 2023Jan 21, 2023
Brendan Lee, M.A.Sustaining Education for Democracy in Crisis (April 2022)Last month, the world witnessed another dramatic shift in international relations as Russia launched an unrelenting assault on Ukraine. In…Apr 4, 2022Apr 4, 2022
Brendan Lee, M.A.The Underlying Border Crisis: Confronting Nativism in American Culture and History (April 2021)In recent months, a humanitarian crisis has developed along the southern border that has garnered significant attention in the national…Mar 13, 2022Mar 13, 2022