Julian E. Zelizer is professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is author of Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 (1998), winner of the OAH Ellis Hawley Prize and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation's D.B. Hardeman Prize, and On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 (2004). He is editor of New Directions in American Political History (2005) and The American Congress (2004); and coeditor of Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s (2008) and The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History (2003). Currently, Zelizer is completing a book entitled Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security from World War II through the War on Terrorism. He is also cowriting a book about the Reagan Revolution, editing a book about the presidency of George W. Bush, and writing a book about the presidency of Jimmy Carter. The History News Network named Zelizer as one of the top young historians in the country. He is also a well-known commentator in the international and national media on political history and contemporary politics, and a regular contributor to CNN.Com, The Huffington Post, and Politico, among others. For more information, see http://www.julianzelizer.com/.

Lecture topics:

• Presidential Leadership in Times of Crisis: The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited
• Congress and the Conservative Revolution
• Ending the Draft After Vietnam
• President Obama in Historical Perspective
• The Death of Détente and the Rise of the Republican Right
• How Congress Helped End the Vietnam War

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