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KC Johnson

Professor   Department: History   Location: 501 Whitehead Hall   Phone: 718-951-5000 x2813   Fax: 718-951-4504   Email:   KC Johnson's Web site

Education: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY - 1993 (HISTORY) Books and Publications "Did Nixon Commit Treason in 1968? What the New LBJ Tapes Reveal," History News Network, http://hnn.us/articles/60446.html. (Books and Publications: Other Article) 2009 All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election (Cambridge University Press). (Books and Publications: Book) 2009 "The Duke Lacrosse Case and the Blogosphere," Law and Contemporary Problems 71 (2008): 155-170. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Lyndon Johnson and Israel: The Secret Presidential Recordings (S. Daniel Abraham Center, Research Paper Series, 2008). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2008 Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Case (New York, Thomas Dunne, 2nd edition: revised and expanded). (Books and Publications: Book) 2008 The Lyndon Baines Johnson Tapes, volume 4, co-editor, W.W. Norton. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 The Lyndon Baines Johnson Tapes, volume 5, co-editor. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2007 Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, co-author with Stuart Taylor, Jr., St. Martin's. (Books and Publications: Book) 2007 "Managing the Fall of a Friendly Dictator: The US and Anastasio Somoza's Nicaragua," in Ernest R. May and Philip Zelikow, eds., Dealing with Dictators: Dilemmas of US Diplomacy and Intelligence Analysis, 1945-1990, MIT Press. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006 "Politics, Policy, and Presidential Power: Lyndon Johnson and the 1964 Farm Bill," in Mitch Lerner, ed., Looking Back at LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light, University Press of Kansas. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2005 co-editor (with David Shreve), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 2, W.W. Norton. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2005 co-editor (with Kent Germany), The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson, vol. 3, W.W. Norton. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2005 Congress and the Cold War, Cambridge University Press. (Books and Publications: Book) 2005 "The Progressive Dissent: Ernest Gruening and Vietnam," in Randall Bennett Woods, ed, Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 36-62. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2003 "The Unexpected Consequences of Congressional Activism: The Clark and Tunney Amendments and U.S. Policy toward Angola," Diplomatic History 27 (2003): 215-243. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2003 "The Politicization of Cultural Diplomacy," in Frank Ninkovich and Liping Bu, eds., The Cultural Turn, Imprint Publications, 2002, pp. 88-110. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Congressional Power," in Deconde, Burns, and Logevall, eds., Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2d ed., Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002, pp. 293-313. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2002 "Congress and the Cold War," Journal of Cold War Studies 3 (2001): 77-101. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001 "The State Department," Oxford Companion to American History, Oxford University Press, 2001. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2001 "Constitutionalism at Home and Abroad: The United States Senate and the Alliance for Progress, 1961-1967," International History Review 21: 414-442. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1999 20 January 1961: The American Dream, DTV Publishers. (Books and Publications: Book) 1999 "Congress Confronts the Cold War: The Senate Government Operations Committee and American Foreign Relations, 1953-1969," Political Science Quarterly 113: 645-671. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998 Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition, Harvard University Press, 1998. (Books and Publications: Book) 1998 "Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy," Journal of Latin American Studies 29: 89-110. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1997 "The Origins of Dissent: Senate Liberals and Southeast Asia, 1959-1964," Pacific Historical Review 65: 249-275. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1996 "The 'Lessons' of Vietnam," Journal of American-East Asian Relations 4: 291-298. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1995 The Peace Progressives and American Foreign Relations, Harvard University Press, 1995. (Books and Publications: Book) 1995 Editor, On Cultural Ground: Essays in International History, Imprint Publications. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1994 "Ernest Gruening and the Tonkin Gulf Resolution: Continuities in American Dissent," Journal of American-East Asian Relations 2: 111-135. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993 "Article XI in the Debate on the United States' Rejection of the League of Nations," International History Review 15: 502-524. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1993 Creative Work "History on the Web," interviews for Atlas Media, historychannel.com 2009 Consultant, HBO 2009 Panel discussion, "The State of American Universities," Extension 720, WGN-AM, Chicago. 2009 Consultant, HBO 2008 "The Duke Lacrosse Case," featured interview, Nightline, ABC News 2007 "Until Proven Innocent," Good Morning America interview, ABC 2007 Awards, Honors and Fellowships "Philip Merrill Award for Outstanding Contributions to Liberal Arts Education," American Council of Trustees and Alumni (Awards and Honors) 2009 Keynote Address, Campus Freedom Network Conference, Duke Lacrosse Case. (Awards and Honors) 2008 "Best Ethics Blog," American Bar Association Journal (Awards and Honors) 2007 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Hardeman Prize, best book that focuses on the U.S. Congress, Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Outstanding Mid-Size Blog, "Weblog Awards," 2007. (Awards and Honors) 2007 Courage and Liberty Award, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. (Awards and Honors) 2005 Leon Goldstein Memorial Lecture, Kingsborough Community College. (Awards and Honors) 2004 Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums "The Obligations of Citizenship," American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Washington, DC (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2010 "Black Politics Before Obama," Civics, Language, and American Studies Seminar, Kadoorie School, Israel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "From Brown to Birmingham," Civics, Language, and American Studies Seminar, Kadoorie School, Israel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "Harry Truman and Congressional Anti-Communist Investigations," Truman Legacy Conference, Palm Beach, FL. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "LBJ & the Fulfillment of the Civil Rights Agenda," Civics, Language, and American Studies Seminar, Kadoorie School, Israel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "Race and the 2008 Elections," Civics, Language, and American Studies Seminar, Kadoorie School, Israel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "Teaching the Presidential Tapes," SHAFR Conference, Falls Church, VA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2009 "The Fulbright Israel Experience," Fulbright Pre-Orientation Conference, Washington, DC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "The Lacrosse Case and Academic Groupthink," Campus Freedom Network, Philadelphia, PA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "The Obama Inauguration," Digital Video Conference, American Center, Jerusalem. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "The Politics of Backlash," Civics, Language, and American Studies Seminar, Kadoorie School, Israel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War," C.W. Post University (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2009 "Academic and Prosecutorial Misconduct in the Duke Lacrosse Case," New York City Bar Association. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Academic Groupthink and the Duke Lacrosse Case," New York Association of Scholars. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Due Process in the Academy," Campus Freedom Network Conference, Philadelphia. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Freedom and Diversity of Thought on College Campuses," Philanthropy Roundtable. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "Groupthink and the Duke Lacrosse Case," New York Association of Scholars. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "LBJ & Israel: The Presidential Recordings," Swiss Center for Conflict Research, Management and Resolution, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The 2008 U.S. Elections," Achva Academic College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The 2008 U.S. Elections," Kaye College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The 2008 U.S. Elections," Western Galilee College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The Changing Nature of U.S. Presidential Elections," Bar-Ilan College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The Duke Lacrosse Case," Federalist Society Annual Conference, New York City. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The Media and the Duke Lacrosse Case," Princeton University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The Media and the Duke Lacrosse Case," Southeast U.S. Association of Law School Professors Annual Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "The Narrowing Perspective of U.S. History," ATHENA Roundtable. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "The Perils of Academic Groupthink," Emory University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "The Reagan and Bush Policies toward the Middle East," The Global and the Local: International Efforts to Solve Local Conflicts, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008 "The U.S. Elections and Israel," ALLMEP Conference, Jerusalem. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "U.S. Elections from LBJ to Barack Obama," Ben Gurion University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Until Proven Innocent," Scarborough (ME) Public Library. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Until Proven Innocent," Washington, DC, Army & Navy Club. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "What Parents Need to Know About Contemporary College Campuses," Heard on Rye (N.Y.). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008 "Congress, the Cold War, and Congressional Archives," Researching New York Conference, Plenary Session, University of Albany. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Congress, Vietnam, and the Moyar Thesis," The New Vietnam War Revisionism: Implications and Lessons Conference, Williams College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "Mission and American Foreign Policy," NYU Fulbright Summer Institute. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Academy and the Duke Lacrosse Case," FIRE Interns' Seminar. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Alliance for Progress," Latin American History Seminar, Tel Aviv University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The Blogosphere and the Lacrosse Case," Court of Public Opinion Conference, Duke Law School. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "The Lacrosse Case and the Blogosphere," Society for Professional Journalists Conference, Washington, DC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "The Legal and Academic Effects of the Lacrosse Case," Law and Politics Seminar, Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "The Presidential Recordings Project and U.S. Historiography," University of Haifa, General History Seminar. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007 "The Six Day War and the Johnson Tapes," Tel Aviv University Political Science Seminar. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "The U.S. Congress and the Cold War," Fulbright Distinguished Chair Lecture, Tel Aviv University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "Until Proven Innocent," Harvard Club, Boston. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007 "Prosecutorial Misconduct and the Duke Lacrosse Case," ACLU@DUKE Forum. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2006 "Congress and the Cold War," American Society for Legal History Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 "Restoring Diversity to the Academy," NAS Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2006 "Congress and the Cold War, 1947-1987," Harvard University, International History Seminar. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "Congress and the Cold War: book launch," Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, 2005. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "Internal Threats to Academic Freedom," Wolfe Institute Seminar, Brooklyn College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "Dispositions and Ideological Bias in Teacher-Training Programs," New York Association of Scholars. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "On Lyndon B. Johnson: The LBJ Tapes," 92nd Street Y, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "PC No More: The Intellectual Diversity Movement in the Academy," ATHENA Roundtable. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2005 "The Presidential Recordings: Harry Middleton in Conversation with the Miller Center LBJ Tapes Team," LBJ Presidential Library. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2005 "George W. Bush and Institutional Trends in the Presidency," U.S.-Europe seminar, Baruch College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Lyndon Johnson and American Politics," Leon Goldstein Memorial Lecture, Kingsborough Community College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Lyndon Johnson and the 1964 Presidential Election," Columbia Club, New York City. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Personnel Practices as an Institution Embraces a 'Learning Communities' Philosophy: The Brooklyn College Experience," National Association of Scholars conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2004 "The Triumph of the Armed Services Committee," School of Public Affairs seminar, Baruch College. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "U.S. Foreign Policy in Greece and Cyprus since World War II," Stathakion Cultural Center, Queens, New York. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2004 "Anti-Israel Sentiment on College Campuses," Brooklyn College Hillel. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2003 "Intellectual Diversity in the Teaching of U.S. History," ATHENA Roundtable. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2003 "Politics, Foreign Policy, and the 1964 Presidential Election," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2002 "The Worlds of Henry Cabot Lodge," Columbia University Seminar on the 20th Century United States. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2002 "Lyndon Johnson and the World," St. John's University, 2001. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2001 "Henry Cabot Lodge and Democratic Foreign Policy," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2000 "The 1964 Elections," Lehman Center seminar, Columbia University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2000 "The Transformation of Stuart Symington," Columbia University Seminar on History of Political and Legal Thought. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2000 "Institutional and Partisan Rivalry: Inter-American Relations in the 1850s," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999 "The Clark Amendment and U.S. Policy toward Angola," OAH Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1999 "Congress and the Alliance for Progress," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1998 "Congress and the Foreign Aid Program in the 1970s," Conference on the Carter Presidency, Carter Library. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1997 "Subcommittee Government and American Foreign Policy," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1996 "Ernest Gruening and the Vietnam War," Vanderbilt University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1995 "Integrating Congressional History and International History," Charles Warren Center Workshop, Harvard University. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 1995 "Roundtable, On Cultural Ground," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1995 "The Historiography of the Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb," Regional Association of Asian Scholars Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1995 "The Tonkin Gulf Resolution and Senate Foreign Policy Reform," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1994 "Inter-American Visions," SHAFR Conference. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 1993 Professional Leadership GC First-Year Exam Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 UCRA Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2010 "New York and Constitutional Themes," Teaching American History seminar, Brooklyn Coll. (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2009 CUNY Association of Scholars, executive committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2009 GC First-Year Exam Committee (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009 UCRA panel, PSC-CUNY Awards #40 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2009 Committee Member, Fulbright Outreach Program (Israeli Arab student selections) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 CUNY Association of Scholars, executive committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2008 UCRA panel, PSC-CUNY Awards #40 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2008 CUNY Association of Scholars, executive committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2007 UCRA panel, PSC-CUNY Awards #38 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2007 CUNY Association of Scholars, executive committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2006 UCRA panel, PSC-CUNY Awards #37, 38 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2006 CUNY Association of Scholars, executive committee (Professional Leadership: Organizational Leadership Position) 2005 UCRA panel, PSC-CUNY Awards #35, 36 (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2005 "Intellectual Diversity and the Teaching of U.S. History," U.S. Senate, Education and Labor Committee, Hearings, Is Intellectual Diversity an Endangered Species on Today's College Campuses? (Professional Leadership: Public Service) 2003