Event Details

End: October 17, 2016
Contact: events@radcliffe.harvard.edu
More Info: http://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2016-righting-the-record-panel-discussion

Righting the Record: Conservatism and the Archives
Monday, October 17, 2016 | 4:15 PM
A Schlesinger Library Event at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA

Over the last half-century, grassroots activists and organizations both left and right have focused on women’s roles, family values, homosexuality, and reproductive policy, transforming modern American life. Yet the collections of major public repositories, especially those housed at universities, tend to document only one side of this complicated history, the left side.

The Schlesinger Library is hosting a conversation among scholars, intellectuals, and activists—moderated by the New York Times columnist Ross Douthat—to explore the consequences of the current situation and examine possible solutions. “Righting the Record” is part of the Library’s multifaceted approach to enhancing the diversity of the documentary record, to ensure that students, researchers, and scholars can write more complete and balanced histories of our times.

Speakers:
-Donald Critchlow, professor of history, and director, Center for Political Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University
-Jennifer A. Marshall, vice president, Heritage Foundation
-Michelle Nickerson, associate professor of history, Loyola University, Chicago
-Charmaine Yoest, senior fellow, American Values

Please register online and join us by visiting the webpage.