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The Fifth Annual Keith Nelson Lecture in U.S. International History: "The Hearts of Foreigners, How Americans Understand Others" featuring Dr. Tim Borstelmann

About the Speaker
Thomas (“Tim”) Borstelmann is the Elwood N. and Katherine Thompson Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He taught previously at Cornell University and is a recent president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). His books include Apartheid’s Reluctant Uncle: The United States and Southern Africa in the Early Cold War (1993), The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (2001), and The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (2012). His co-authored study, Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, is in its 5th edition. His next book, The Hearts of Foreigners: How Americans Understand Others, will be published in 2020.

About the Keith L. Nelson Lecture in U.S. International History
The Keith L. Nelson Lecture in International History is made possible by the allocation of funds from the Edward A. Dickson professorship awarded to Keith L. Nelson, Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at UCI.

About Keith L. Nelson
Nelson was a founding member of the History department in 1965 and served the campus, Humanities, and History in numerous ways. His publications include The Impact of War on American Life; Victors Divided: America and the Allies In Germany, 1918-1923; The Making of Détente: Soviet-American Relations in the Shadow of Vietnam; and Why War? Ideology, Theory, and History (with Spencer Olin).