{"id":31185,"date":"2021-04-20T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/?p=31185"},"modified":"2021-11-03T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T19:01:48","slug":"barclay-and-americas-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/alumni\/barclay-and-americas-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Shrugs Off U.S. Influence in Wake of \u2018America\u2019s Berlin\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

U.S. influence is on the wane in Europe. But Professor Emeritus David Barclay notes that this wasn\u2019t always the case. From 1948 through the mid-1960s, the United States enormously influenced West Berlin, causing many historians to describe the western half of the city as \u201cAmerica\u2019s Berlin.\u201d Barclay, who retired from K as the Margaret and Roger Scholten Professor of International Studies, focuses on the buildings and personalities that shaped \u201cAmerica\u2019s Berlin,\u201d from Lucius Clay to Eleanor Lansing Dulles, in a special K-Talk. He also briefly considers what happened to U.S. influence after the mid-1960s. Hear from Barclay after President Jorge G. Gonzalez unveils the David E. Barclay Endowed Scholarship in History, which benefits K students who demonstrate exemplary capacity for and commitment to scholarly work in the history department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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