KU News Release

Hall Center announces lecture on American conservative movement

LAWRENCE — Historian George H. Nash, author of “The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945,” will lecture on the topic of his book at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas.

Nash is a co-editor of “Province in Rebellion: A Documentary History of the Founding of Massachusetts, 1774–1775” and the author of “Books and the Founding Fathers.” From 1987 to 1990, Nash served by presidential appointment on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, an independent, permanent agency of the federal government that advises the president and Congress on library and information issues.

A member of the editorial advisory board of Modern Age and a senior fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Nash has been an associate of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University since 2004. His articles and reviews have appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, Modern Age, the New York Times Book Review, the University Bookman and many other publications.

This event is supported by the Friends of the Hall Center and is free and open to the public.

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