Chalke Talks for REGION: USA

• 04. THE PARIS PEACE TREATIES
  Peter Caddick-Adams ( 2018 )
  Published: 10th Jan 2021

  This talk by Dr Peter Caddick-Adams for senior pupils at the Chalke Valley History Festival for Schools, challenges some assumptions about the aftermath of the First World War. The armistice in 1918 was a truce but fighting continued in Eastern Europe and the Middle East for several years. He explains that the Treaty of Versailles […]

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• 07. THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE EMPIRE OF THE IMAGINATION
  Annette Gordon-Reed ( 2018 )
  Published: 10th Jan 2021

  Worshipped, pilloried, and forever debated. Such is the fate of Thomas Jefferson, whose actions and ideas — more than those of any of the other Founding Fathers —still divide Americans two centuries later. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard Professor Annette Gordon-Reed extends the analysis of Jefferson in light of prevailing attitudes towards politics, slavery, genetics, […]

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