is the James Madison Professor of History and Director of the program \u00bbGoverning America in a Global Era\u00ab at the University of Virginia. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University. His research and teaching focus on twentieth-century global history, particularly the First and Second World Wars as well as the Cold War. Among his most significant publications are \u00bbThe Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe\u00ab (2008), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction, and the New York Times bestseller \u00bbThe Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s\u00ab (2018). William Hitchcock has been a Fulbright Fellow in Belgium, a fellow at the Nobel Institute and a fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. In fall 2025, William Hitchcock will be a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, where he is completing a book on the American response to the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s.
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