It remains one of the most tantalizing questions of John F. Kennedy's legacy: if he had survived his trip to Dallas in November 1963, would he have withdrawn U.S. military advisers from Vietnam? The possibility that Kennedy would have avoided the epic mistake of plunging the U.S. into a land war in Southeast Asia continues to stir debate among historians.  Professor Fredrik Logevall is interviewed.

Fredrik Logevall describes the legacy of the Paris Peace Accords, which effectively put an end to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, as the 50th anniversary of the accords nears.

Veteran historians Frederik Logevall and Arne Westad ponder the 20th century world for lessons from Russia's Ukraine invasion. 

Fredrik Logevall suggests that President Biden take a lesson from John F. Kennedy and own up to the mistakes, calmly and firmly, and learn from them.

Fredrik Logevall reviews THE AMERICAN WAR IN AFGHANISTAN: A History by Carter Malkasian and The AFGHANISTAN PAPERS: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock.

On April 22, 2021, the Kingston Public Library will host a presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning author Fredrik Logevall on his biography, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, the first volume of a projected two-volume biography that includes new archival material from the Kennedy Presidential Library. The biography is a fresh examination of America's youngest and first Catholic president.

We asked Fredrik Logevall, author of JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century (Random House, 2020), why he decided to write a biography of John F. Kennedy, what surprised him in his research, and whether he thinks Kennedy would have won the 2020 presidential election.

The historian Fredrik Logevall has written a grand fresh take on the life of John F. Kennedy, as if to reignite an old flame. He's given us a chance to remember politics as the sport of great minds and hearts, high language, serious stuff.

Fredrik Logevall, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes us as close as we have ever been to the real John F. Kennedy in this revelatory biography of the iconic, yet still elusive, thirty-fifth president.