Distinguished Professor of History and Women's Studies at the John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Blanche Wiesen Cook is author of the award-winning Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume I, 1884-1933 (1992) and Volume II, The Defining Years, 1933-1938 (1999). She is now working on the third and final volume. For more than twenty years, she produced and hosted her own program for Pacifica Radio and has appeared frequently as a television news commentator. She also was cofounder and cochair of the OAH's Committee on Research and Access to Historical Documentation.

Lecture topics:

• Eleanor Roosevelt and the Quest for Peace and Human Rights
• Eleanor Roosevelt, Women, and Power
• The Assault Against Freedom of Information and Access to Presidential Papers

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