![]() ![]() Hatfield Lecture Series, bringing together the nation’s top historians and award-winning authors for thought-provoking evenings of history. Hatfield Lecture Seriesįor twenty-five years, the Oregon Historical Society has presented the Mark O. In a fast-evolving era when the nation is witnessing new types of environmental crises due to climate change and resource exhaustion, Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written book reminds readers of the passionate grassroots work that still needs to be done. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. In his most recently book, Silent Spring Revolution, Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties, telling a highly charged story of an indomitable generation of activists who combated environmental destruction under the leadership of John F. He works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards, museums, colleges, and historical societies. Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and a professor of history at Rice University, the CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. ![]()
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