June 25, 2009 / Philadelphia
Walter A. McDougall is Co-Chair of FPRI’s History Institute and Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Promised Land, Crusader State: America´s Encounter with the World Since 1776.
This presentation was part of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Modern Middle East: A History Institute for Teachers, presented by FPRI’s Wachman Center and the American Institute for History Education.
Core funding for the History Institute has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation and Mr. H.F. Lenfest.
On November 15th at the FPRI annual dinner Fouad Ajami was presented with the Seventh Annual Benjamin Franklin Public Service Award. The event was attended by over 360 people.
Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. was dinner chairman.

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