Elizabeth Spalding on the Evils of Communism

Liberty and Leadership

Elizabeth Edwards Spalding is the founding director of the Victims of Communism Museum and chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Elizabeth is a visiting fellow at Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government and a senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. She has devoted her career to researching and educating generations about the history and horrors of communism. She is the author of "The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism" and "A Brief History of the Cold War," which she co-authored with her father, Lee Edwards. Elizabeth is an alumna of the 1986 TFAS Journalism and Communications program. She earned a bachelor's in politics from Hillsdale College, and both a Ph.D. and a master's in international politics and political theory from the University of Virginia.
In this week's Liberty + Leadership Podcast, Roger and Elizabeth discuss her childhood growing up in Washington, D.C., how falling in love with learning turned her into a lifelong student, how studying Truman is critical to understanding the Cold War, her work at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and the personal power of the Witness Project at the Victims of Communism Museum.
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