Matusow to discuss Cuban missile crisis at Nov. 9 lecture

BY FRANZ BROTZEN
Rice News staff

Allen Matusow, the William Gaines Twyman Professor of History, will speak Nov. 9 on “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited” in the Humanities Building, Room 117. The lecture begins at 4 p.m.

ALLEN MATUSOW

Matusow is presenting the lecture as a finalist for Baylor University’s 2012 Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the only national teaching award given by a college or university to an

individual for exceptional teaching. Matusow was selected as a finalist in April along with two other scholars/teachers; the winner will be announced in spring 2012. Each finalist is presenting a series of lectures at Baylor during this fall and a Cherry Award lecture on their home campuses during the academic year.

Matusow is a recognized expert on modern U.S. history. His areas of interest include the foreign policy of former President Richard Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, post-World War II American foreign policy and U.S. history from the Harry Truman administration to the Ronald Reagan administration.

Matusow is the author of three major books: “Farm Policies and Politics in the Truman Years” (1967), “The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s” (1984) and “Nixon’s Economy: Boom, Busts, Dollars & Votes” (1998). He is working on a book about former President Jimmy Carter and the Cold War.

For more on the Cherry Award, go to http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=92204.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Paula Platt at pauladp@rice.edu or 713-348-3097.