The historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917-2007) was professor emeritus in the humanities at the City University of New York. Before his retirement he was Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities at CUNY and taught at Harvard and Princeton.
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DEC 12, 1995 • Article
Nizer Lectures (1994–1998): America and the World: Isolationism Resurgent?
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. argues for a reexamination of the Wilsonian doctrine of collective security and a greater concentration on preventive diplomacy, to enhance the ...
NOV 29, 1989 • Article
Morgenthau Lecture: Is the Cold War Over?
Arthur Schlesinger analyzes the failure of the Soviet experiment, something no historian had predicted.