The Cold War in Our Past and Present
CREES and the Bay Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) present this workshop series for teachers. The series consists of four Saturday a.m. sessions, coordinated and led by Bert Patenaude, Senior Lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey and Lecturer in History at Stanford. Sessions include guest lectures and discussions of curricular activities and materials. These Saturday morning workshop events will include refreshments from 8:30 - 9:00 a.m., with working sessions running from 9:00 a.m. to noon. Funding for this workshop is provided by grants from the United States Department of Education (Title VI). There is no registration fee for the workshop and anyone may attend. STIPEND AVAILABLE:The first 20 active classroom teachers to register will be eligible for a stipend of $100 for attending all four sessions. CONTINUING EDUCATION Continuing education credit is available for a $60 fee. On-campus parking is free on weekends. For further information, please contact Mary Dakin (mdakin@stanford.edu) at CREES (650-725-6852), or Tuckie Yirchott at BAGEP (650-725-1482). Session One: Saturday, February 26, 2000 9:00 a.m. Speaker: Bert Patenaude Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, students of the Cold War
are as divided as ever over its causes and its course. The opening of the
Russian archives, far from settling these disputes, has enriched and enlivened
them. Prof. Patenaude discusses the wide range of scholarly and popular
debates about the Cold War, from its origins under Stalin and FDR to its
sudden demise under Gorbachev and Bush. The lecture serves both as a survey
of the landmark events and turning points of the Cold War and as a guide
to the controversies surrounding it. Session Two: Saturday, March 11, 2000 9:00 a.m. Bart Bernstein, Professor of History, Stanford University An expert on U.S. foreign policy since 1945, Prof. Bernstein explores
America's culpability in the origins and early confrontations of the Cold
War. Drawing upon declassified U.S. government documents, Prof. Bernstein
critically examines the Truman administration's policy toward the Soviets,
Washington's role in the outbreak of the Korean War, and President Kennedy's
handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R. came to the brink of nuclear war. Session Three: Saturday, March 25, 2000 9:00 a.m. David Holloway, Director, Institute for International Studies Prof. Holloway, author of the highly acclaimed recent book Stalin and
the Bomb, draws upon his research in the
newly-opened Russian archives to reveal how the nascent Cold War looked
from inside Stalin's Kremlin. Was a confrontation between Washington and
Moscow inevitable, or was "peaceful coexistence" a genuine possibility?
How are these newly available Soviet documents changing our perspective
on Cold War history? Prof. Holloway offers his analysis. Session Four: Saturday, April 8, 2000 9:00 a.m. Speaker: Bert Patenaude Among the most hotly disputed of Cold War topics between American conservatives
and liberals concerns the causes of the collapse of the U.S.S.R. Was the
Reagan arms build-up the critical factor, or would the Soviet Union sooner
or later have succumbed on its own? How much credit does Mikhail Gorbachev
deserve for ending the Cold War? Prof. Patenaude assesses the arguments
and explains how the peaceful conclusion of the East-West conflict and
the weakened condition of the new Russia have led younger Americans to
underappreciate the significance of the Cold War--how high were the stakes,
how deadly the dangers. Cold War Resources on the World Wide Web Funding for this workshop is provided in part by the US Department of Education under Title VI. |