UVA presidential historian to deliver Minds@Work keynote address

Heidelberg University will welcome historian and presidential scholar Marc Selverstone as the keynote speaker for the Minds@Work Research Conference on Tuesday, April 14, at 11 a.m. in Gundlach Theatre.

Selverstone studies presidential decision-making and the Cold War, focusing on how leaders navigated some of the most challenging moments in American history. His work explores the Kennedy presidency, the Vietnam War, and the broader tensions that shaped U.S. foreign policy during the 1960s and 1970s.

An associate professor in Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, Selverstone also chairs the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program. In that role, he edits the secret White House tapes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. 

Additionally, he is the author of Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945–1950, which received the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is currently working on a new book, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam, under contract with Harvard University Press.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from a respected voice in presidential history. Join us for the conversation at Minds@Work.