The long Cold War impacted almost all aspects of American society. In this presentation, we’ll look at how Cold War values shaped American entertainment, religion, education, and society. From 1950s science fiction movies to our currency, nothing was left untouched or unchanged.
Dr. John Tully is currently an Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs, with responsibilities for Graduate Studies. His portfolio includes all aspects of Graduate Studies, the Library, the Center for Teaching Innovation, and centrals Bachelor of General Studies and National Student Exchange programs. He also supports the Provost on faculty and department chair support initiatives. In September 2021, Central presented Dr. Tully with the “Distinguished Service Award,” the University’s highest honor. He has written, cowritten, or coedited three books; Two books have won the James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association. In 2009, he won both the Connecticut State University Board of Trustees Teaching Award for Central and the CSU System-Level Trustees Teaching Award, becoming the first CSU system teaching award winner at the university. He has written and won five US Department of Education “Teaching American History” grants, totaling almost $5 million. He also served as the Director of Secondary Education for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He has given talks in Ireland and Poland and presented conference papers at national meetings of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the National Council for the Social Studies, the American Conference for Irish Studies, and many others.