Elizabeth Spalding

A lifelong educator and frequent public speaker, Dr. Elizabeth Edwards Spalding is Senior Fellow at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, where she teaches religion and politics, and Visiting Fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel School of Government, where she teaches courses on the American Presidency, Marxism, and statecraft. Spalding serves as Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC), where she is also Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum, and on the Board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy(IRD). She is the author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism and the co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War, and her scholarly and popular articles and reviews have been published widely. Spalding lives with her family in Arlington, VA.

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