Koncewicz to present O’Brien Lecture, Indiana Association of Historians’ keynote address
Historian, educator and author Michael Koncewicz, Ph.D., will be on the Hanover College campus Saturday, April 5, to present the annual Cornelius and Anna Cook O’Brien Lecture as the keynote address for the 45th-annual Indiana Association of Historians’ annual conference.
An associate director at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University (NYU), Koncewicz also teaches courses on public history and U.S. presidents. His scholarship focuses on U.S. culture and politics during the 1960s and 1970s.
The keynote address, “Richard Nixon, Tom Hayden, and the Resistance of the Watergate Era,” will begin at 12:45 p.m. in Lynn Center for Fine Arts, room 107. The lecture is open to the public, free of charge, as well as conference attendees.
Koncewicz previously worked for the National Archives at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, contributing to the museum’s nonpartisan Watergate exhibit. His first book, “They Said ‘No’ to Nixon: Republicans Who Stood Up to the President’s Abuses of Power,” was published in 2018. The work, culled from previously unpublished excerpts from tapes and recently released materials, reveals how Republican Party members remained loyal civil servants in the face of Nixon’s attempts to expand the imperial presidency.
Currently, Koncewicz is working on an authorized biography of Tom Hayden, the celebrity activist who often straddled the line between liberal and mainstream politics. The book will examine Hayden’s life through the Port Huron Statement, founding of Students for a Democratic Society, the Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial, marriage to Jane Fonda, and his time in the California legislature.
Koncewicz, who earned a doctorate in history at the University of California, Irvine, has taught U.S. history and public history courses at NYU and Hunter College. He recently curated NYU’s Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives’ Cold War collections and also managed the archives’ Center for the United States and the Cold War and public programming.
Note: Indiana Association of Historians membership is NOT required to attend the Koncewicz address
