A former Ohio University student and Graduate College fellow will lecture on the famous debates between a religious leader and an author during the Cold War.
Jeremy Hatfield’s lecture, “The Cross and the Sword: Billy Graham, Jerry Falwell, and the Cold War,” will examine these debates in detail — also the basis for his upcoming book.
Both the lecture and his book are based on his dissertation, “For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War,” which describes how foreign affairs partly defined the Reagan administration’s relationship with the Religious Right, according to the Contemporary Institute’s website.
This is the first of many discussions in the Contemporary History Institute lecture series throughout the spring, said Connie Hunter, events coordinator for the Contemporary History Institute.
Hatfield received his doctorate from OU and received the Baker Peace Fellowship.
“(Attendees) will hear a young scholar who has worked on a subject of great political importance during the past several decades: the growth of the Reverend Jerry Fallwell’s “Moral Majority, and the involvement of Christian Evangelicals in American conservative politics,” said Steven Miner, director of Contemporary History Institute.
“This (involvement) had a major effect on that nature of American foreign policy during the closing years of the Cold War,” Miner said.
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If You Go:
What: Jeremy Hatfield lecture
When: 4:30 p.m. Thursday
Where: Baker Center 103
Admission: Free
This article originally ran under the headline "Doctorate alumnus to discuss Cold War"
This article initially stated this event was taking place in Stocker Center
