A one-day scholarly seminar celebrating current scholarship on American understandings of the Russian Revolution at its centenary. "How to Teach a Revolution: Americans in 1917, Historians Today," Susan Smith-Peter, Associate Professor of History, College of Staten Island/ CUNY “The Demise of a Historic Friendship and the Rise of an American Crusade for a Free Russia: American-Russian Relations, 1881-1917,” David Fogelsong, Professor of History, Rutgers University “Russia's Revolution: Varying American Eyewitness Perspectives,” Ben Whisenhunt, Professor of History, College of DuPage “The Russian Journey of an American Newspaperwoman: A Revolution in the Making in Bessie Beatty’s Bulletin Dispatches,” Dr. Lyubov Ginzburg, Independent Scholar “’The Bolshevik of Wall Street’: William Boyce Thompson and the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, 1917-1918,” Peter Scasny, Graduate Student, College of Staten Island/ CUNY
New York City, NY; NYC