“By liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, history enables us to control, not society, but ourselves—a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more humanely in the present and to meet rather than to foretell the future.”— Carl Becker (1873-1945), “A New Philosophy of History,” The Dial 59, no. 700 (2 September 1915), 148.
PANELS ORGANIZED
“The Lives of Others: Moral Considerations in America’s Twentieth-Century Wars in East Asia and the Pacific,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-18 June 2022.
PRESENTATIONS
“The Limits of Unlimited War: American Victory Doctrine from Unconditional Surrender to Peace with Honor, 1943-1973,” Emerging Scholars in Grand Strategy Conference, Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC), Lake Wawasee, IN, 24-26 May 2023.
“Feeding Freedom, Rationing Death: Federal Propaganda, Censorship, and the Origins of the ‘Good War’ Myth,” New Wave Realism IV Conference, Program for the Study of Realist Foreign Policy at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, 9-10 December 2022.
“War Without Cost: Unconditional Surrender, Unlimited War, and the Will to Win in the Pacific,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, 16-18 June 2022.
“Lidice Lives Forever: How the Nazis, Czechs, and Western Allies Used Lidice,” 16th Annual History Graduate Student Conference at Loyola University Chicago – Conscience-Driven History, Chicago, IL, 2 November 2019.
“Lidice Lives Forever: The Appropriation of Lidice by the Nazis and the Allies,” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference (RMIHC), Boulder, CO, September 2017.
RESOURCES
Patrick Winston, “How to Speak” IAP, MIT (2018)