Avalon moderated the panel which responded to questions from members of the audience.

They also put currently popular issues like executive power, partisan politics, and economic inequality in historical context. John Avlon, author of [IndeĪ panel of authors who have written books for the Oxford University Press’s History of the United States series talked about the periods of…Ī panel of authors who have written books for the Oxford University Press’s History of the United States series talked about the periods of history they cover in the series. Gore and the Bancroft Prize-winning Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. Patterson, author of Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. The historians taking part in the discussion were: David Kennedy, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 James McPherson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Bancroft Prize winner Robert Middlekauff, author of The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 and James T. T10:44:15-05:00 A panel of authors who have written books for the Oxford University Press’s History of the United States series talked about the periods of history they cover in the series.

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