PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College (OLLI at BCC) Distinguished Speakers Series presents "The End of WWII and the Creation of the Post-war Global System" with Professor Warren Kimball on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 2:30 p.m.

 

The talk will be held at BCC's main campus, located at 1350 West Street, Pittsfield. 

 

Tickets are $10 for the general public and free for OLLI at BCC members, WIC/ EBT/ConnectorCare Card holders, and students, staff and faculty of BCC, MCLA and Williams College. To register, visit https://berkshireolli.org/event-6827923.  

 

Kimball's talk and discussion focuses on how Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin thought about and shaped the postwar world — a history that lasted for some 75 years and may be crumbling right now. 

 

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Professor Warren Kimball is the author of "Forged in War: Roosevelt, Churchill, and the Second World War (1997)," "The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman (1991)," and books on the Morgenthau Plan for Germany and the origins of Lend-Lease. He edited "Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence" (three volumes, 1984) and has authored more than 50 essays on Churchill, Roosevelt and the era of the Second World War. Kimball is an academic adviser to the Churchill Centre and senior editor for the Churchill journal, "Finest Hour." He chaired and served on the State Department Historical Advisory Committee (1990-2003) and chaired the Secretary of State's Review Panel on the Historical Office Issues (2008-09). 

 

Currently, Kimball is writing an institutional history of the US Tennis Association and is the USTA historian. He is the Robert Treat Professor of History (emeritus) from Rutgers University, where he taught for 32 years, and was Pitt Professor at Cambridge University (1987-88) and Visiting Distinguished Professor at The Citadel (2002-04). An OLLI at BCC member, Kimball lives on Seabrook Island in South Carolina and in the Berkshires.