William Hitchcock is the James Madison Professor of History and Director of Governing America in a Global Era at the University of Virginia. Hitchcock holds a BA in History and French from Kenyon College and a PhD in History from Yale University. He studies twentieth-century global history, with a focus on World War I and II, and the Cold War. He is the author of four books: The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Simon & Shuster, 2018), a New York Times bestseller; The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (The Free Press/Simon & Shuster, 2008), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction; The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent, 1945 to the Present, (Doubleday, 2003); and France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Stability in Europe, 1945-54 (University of North Carolina, 1998). He has co-authored four additional books: From War to Peace: Altered Strategic Landscapes in the Twentieth Century (with Paul Kennedy, Yale, 2000) and Sharper Nations: Strategies for a Changing World (with Melvyn Leffler and Jeffrey Legro, Harvard, 2016). His work has received support from the MacArthur Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Nobel Institute, among others. Hitchcock was a Fulbright Fellow to Belgium and a fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University. He co-hosted the “Democracy in Danger” podcast, produced by the Governing America in a Global Era research institute and the University of Virginia’s Deliberative Media Lab.