[GPSCC-chat] The Untold History of the United States this Friday at 6pm

[Jules Brouillet]

Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter
Kuznick will show an episode of their series "The Untold History of the
United States ," followed by discussion with them and cold war expert
Daniel Ellsberg, moderated by Stanford University historian Barton
Bernstein at Stanford University at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb 22, 2013, in
Building 200, Room 2.

A larger-than-life figure in American filmmaking, Stone is a director,
producer and screenwriter who has won numerous Academy Awards for his work
on such iconic films as Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the Fourth of
July, Natural Born Killers, Midnight Express, The People vs. Larry Flynt
and W. He has also directed documentaries such as Looking for Fidel,
Comandante and Persona Non Grata.

Kuznick is a professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear
Studies Institute at American University as well as serving his third term
as distinguished lecturer with the Organization of American Historians. He
has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history and
Cold War culture, including Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political
Activists in 1930s America.

Stone and Kuznick created The Untold History of the United States, a
documentary series on Showtime that has also been released as a book. With
the series, the duo reject the notion of American Exceptionalism , and
instead present U.S. history through the prism of imperial power, examining
such events as the use of the atomic bomb.

Ellsberg, a former U.S. nuclear analyst, served in the US State and Defense
Departments and the RAND Corporation in the 1960s.  The events surrounding
his 1971 leak of a 7,000-page study known as the Pentagon Papers, is
profiled in the documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America.  He is a
writer and critic of U.S. foreign and nuclear policies.

Bernstein is Professor of History at Stanford University and Co-Chair of
the International Relations Program and the International Policy Studies
Program.  His works include The Truman Administration: A Documentary
History, Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History, and
Twentieth-Century America: Recent Interpretations.

The event is free and open to the public.  Book-signing will follow the
discussion.

Sponsored by

The Media Freedom Foundation & Project Censored
Stanford International Relations Program
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