This fall if you look back, but i was particularly delighted to thismark here as part of fall series. We go way back to the early days of my time here at the Wilson Center running the colton history project. Mark has moved on to bigger and Better Things and he will be talking about this today. Hes the professor of history at the university of chicago along reimagined american human rights in the 20th century , the book he will be talking about today. His books include familiar made strange american icons and ,rtifacts published last year vietnam and war, 2009, and the making of postcolonial vietnam published in 2000. President ofast the American Society of foreign relations. With that, mark, it is great to have you here. Mr. Bradley it is nice to see very familiar faces. It has been a very long time, and its nice to see you. Eric, i was your ta a really, really long time ago. He was a great professor. Its also a real pleasure to see warren colin, who in many ways i feel like gave me th
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