The poet Carolyn Forché’s engagement with El Salvador stretches back to the late 1970s. In the 1980s, she toured extensively in the United States, reciting poetry and raising awareness about […]
History 730 Cold War Latin America Professor Patrick Iber This course will provide a forum for learning and discussing the history of Cold War Latin America. Central themes include […]
An article I’ve written, simply called “The Cultural Cold War,” has been published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. This is an article-length piece that is supposed to give […]
I gave a talk at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, part of UNAM. It was the closing speech for a conference on the “Historia de las exposiciones en México.” […]
My review of Audra Wolfe’s “Freedom’s Laboratory,” up now at The New Republic. The book extends out understanding of the Cultural Cold War into the world of science. A sample: The […]
In The Nation, I have a review of Jonathan Brown’s Cuba’s Revolutionary World and Dirk Kruijt’s Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America. In February 1962, Fidel Castro spoke the words of the Second Declaration […]
In The New Republic, I have a review of Odd Arne Westad’s “The Cold War: A World History.” (Wonderful illustration by Guy Billout.) This is an important book, and it’s a […]
I have a chapter in this edited volume, The Global 1960s, on how the Ford Foundation gets trapped by a climate of suspicion it helps create as it tries to move […]
I have a review of Aragorn Storm Miller’s Precarious Paths to Freedom in the August issue of the Journal of Latin American Studies. In the past several years, historians have been busy […]
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, I have a review of Campaigning Culture: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg. IN […]
