Wednesdays, January 14 - February 18 | 10 am - 12 pm | $68 | 6 weeks

Instructor: Robert Haws

From the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945 through the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower was the most dominant person in American public life.  His acclaim as a military hero brought him worldwide attention in the years after the war.  In each year between 1951 and 1960, the Gallup poll identified "Ike" as the most admired man in the world. 

The purpose of this six-week course is to examine the many ways in which Eisenhower shaped American domestic and international affairs during his presidency. The course materials will include a mixture of lectures, discussions, and video presentations.  We use William Hitchcock’s book, The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s, as our text.  Weekly reading suggestions are no more than fifty pages per week.  At the conclusion of the six-week assessment of Eisenhower's post-war career, we end with a greater appreciation of the contours of his contributions to global events during this period.

About your instructor

Robert Haws taught American History at the University of Mississippi for 42 years. He studied history at the University of Nebraska and Law at Yale Law School. He taught American Constitutional History at Moscow State University as a Fulbright Lecturer in the spring of 1994. He taught Comparative Constitutionalism in the Program in Democracy and Civil Society at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, from 2010 to 2013.

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