June 08, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
Free, public lecture and discussion.
RSVP and directions at http://cwihp.si.edu or 202-691-4110.

Bruce Craig is the director of the National Coalition for History, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization that represents the historical and archival community on Capitol Hill. He is also adjunct faculty at the American University.

Craig received his Ph.D. from American University in 1999 and an MA in Public History in 1982 from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Craig has authored numerous scholarly and popular articles and has a regular column in the American Historical Association's "Perspectives", the Organization of American Historian's "Newsletter", and the Society of American Achivist's "Archival Outlook". His weekly electronic newsletter--the "NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE"--is widely read and highly regarded in historical and archival circles. Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter White Espionage Case is his first book. He is currently working on a screen adaptation of the Russian literary classic "Faithful Ruslan" and on a biography of Alger Hiss.

Craig was the plaintiff in a landmark court decision that affirmed that federal courts may unseal grand jury records for historical research. Following the Craig v. USA decision, he played a major role in the successful court petition from major historical and archival organizations to unseal the Alger Hiss grand jury records. Craig also played a major role in the opening up of the records of the House Un-American Activities Committee in 2001.

Kai Bird is a biographer under contract to Alfred A. Knopf and Simon & Schuster. He is the co-author with Martin Sherwin of the forthcoming J. Robert Oppenheimer: An American Life (2005). He is also the author of the critically acclaimed biography, The Chairman: John J. McCloy, The Making of the American Establishment (1992) and, The Color of Truth: McGeorge and William Bundy, Brothers in Arms (1998. He is also co-editor of Hiroshima's Shadow: Writings in the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy published by Pamphleteer's Press in 1998. A contributing editor for The Nation, Mr. Bird has written essays and book reviews for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Diplomatic History, and Tikkun magazine among others. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including a Guggenheim, a MacArthur writing fellowship and an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship. In 2001-2002 he was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

James Boughton, Historian of the International Monetary Fund, holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University. Before joining the staff of the IMF in 1981, he was Professor of Economics at Indiana University and had served as an economist at the OECD in Paris. His publications include a textbook on money and banking, a book on the U.S. Federal funds market, two IMF books that he co-edited, and articles in professional journals on international finance, monetary theory and policy, international policy coordination, and the history of economic thought. He has published several articles on the life and work of Harry Dexter White, including "Politics and the Attack on FDR's Economists: From the Grand Alliance to the Cold War" (with Roger Sandilands), in Intelligence and National Security (Autumn 2003). His latest book is Silent Revolution, on the history of the IMF from 1979 to 1989. He is currently working on a sequel.