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Jon Meacham – Healing a House Divided

RSVP Required Harvard Faculty, Fellows, Staff, and Students

As our society struggles to bridge its deepest divisions, join the Belfer Center's Applied History Project for an open session of our Applied History Working Group. Its members – distinguished historians and public servants – study the past to illuminate the most pressing challenges we face today.

Date: Time: - Location: Online
Abraham Lincoln

This session of the Applied History Working Group will feature Jon Meacham, a distinguished historian of the presidency, an occasional advisor to President Joe Biden, and a co-chair of Vanderbilt University's new "Project on Unity & American Democracy." Meacham, with Graham T. Allison, will explore one of the most pressing – and difficult – questions confronting the Biden administration: how to reunite America.

All HKS affiliates are welcome to attend; register using the RSVP link above.

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. A contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor of Time magazine, he is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Hope of Glory, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. Meacham, who holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, lives in Nashville.