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Blind Spot: The Secret History of U.S. Counterterrorism 2004 Timothy Naftali University of Virginia Few historians have had better access to the secret history of international affairs than Professor Timothy J. Naftali, a leading specialist on intelligence, counterterrorism and diplomatic history. To inaugurate the John O’<strong>Sullivan</strong> Memorial Lecture Series, Naftali presented a “sneak preview” of his work titled “Blind Spot” which looked at the history of counterterrorism. Naftali worked as a consultant for the 911 Commission, where he prepared a special report on the history of U.S. counterterrorism based on interviews with high level officials and declassified documents. Earlier, he co-authored a report for the U.S. Congress on American knowledge of Nazi war crimes. He has also worked with Russian historian Alexander Fursenko to write a highly-praised account of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The book, titled “One Hell of a Gamble,” is based on extraordinary access to secret documents from the Kremlin’s archives. Before joining New York University as Director of the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives in 2013, Naftali directed the Miller Center’s Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia, which transcribes and analyzes audio tapes made by recent presidents. He also headed the Miller Center’s Kremlin Decision-Making Project, which uses recently released documents to reconstruct Soviet policymaking after the death of Stalin. 2
Religion and Politics: An American Tradition 2005 David Goldfield University of North Carolina at Charlotte David Goldfield, Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and editor of the Journal of Urban History gave the second John O’<strong>Sullivan</strong> Memorial Lecture. He has published 16 books on various aspects of Southern and American history, including “Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Southern Culture,” which received the Mayflower Award for Nonfiction and the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights; “Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History; Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred;” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated “Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers;” and the best-selling “America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation.” In addition, Goldfield has served as an expert witness in voting rights cases, consulted for history museums, and works as an Academic Specialist for the U.S. State Department, leading seminars and workshops abroad on various aspects of American political culture and providing historical context for contemporary elections. The JOHN O’SULLIVAN MEMORIAL LECTURE SERIES | 3
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