Woodrow Wilson Center
Celebration of Life: Martin Sherwin
Family, friends, colleagues and students offered remembrances of Martin J. Sherwin.
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Family, friends, colleagues and students will offer remembrances of Martin J. Sherwin, followed by a panel on his scholarship. A live stream of the event will be available, please RSVP to receive a reminder shortly before the broadcast begins.
Thursday, March 24, 2022
1:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Hosted by the Sherwin Family and the Wilson Center
Part 1: Remembrances (1pm – 2pm)
- Marty’s family, friends, colleagues & students
Musical Interlude
- Daniel Lelchuk - Cellist, New Orleans Symphony Orchestra
Part 2: Scholarship (2pm – 3pm)
- Kai Bird, Co-author of “American Prometheus”, Director, The Leon Levy Center for Biography at The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Panel Discussion: “Atoms, Diplomacy and Politics: The Work of Martin J. Sherwin”
- Melvyn P. Leffler (Edward Stettinius Professor of History Emeritus, University of Virginia), Chair
- Gregg Herken (former Chairman of the Department of Space History, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)
- David Holloway (Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History, Stanford University)
- Elaine Tyler May (Regents Professor of American Studies and History, University of Minnesota)
- Remembrances from a decade of NPIHP Bootcamps – Leopoldo Nuti (Roma Tre University)
Explore the Work of Martin Sherwin
Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
In this event, Martin Sherwin not only gave us a riveting explanation of the crisis itself, but also explored the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world.
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Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
In this look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin mined new sources and materials, going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union—triggered when Khrushchev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest.
WATCH NOWFormer Director of CWIHP James G. Hershberg offers his memories of Martin in Passport: The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Review
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