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Kathryn Olmsted is a professor of history at UC Davis. She specializes in the political and cultural history of the twentieth and twenty-first century United States. Her most recent book, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler, examines how the most powerful newspaper publishers in the United States and the United Kingdom worked together to pressure their governments to ignore or minimize the Nazi threat. Her other four books and numerous articles cover topics ranging from Soviet espionage in America to conspiracy theories in U.S. history. She also writes for popular media outlets. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde, and other publications.
This event is hosted by the UC Davis Retiree Center, but open to all.