NEWS & UPDATES
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From the Wall Street Journal: The 11-Minute Harvard Speech That Rebuilt Postwar Europe
It’s been 75 years since George Marshall outlined a bold plan to counter Soviet influence by revitalizing a foreign foe
Association of Marshall Scholars & American College of Trial Lawyers co-host Forum on the Rule of Law
A delegation from the UK’s Supreme and High Courts met American Justices, judges, and lawyers at the Supreme Court of the United States
British Government announces 41 winners of 2022 Marshall Scholarships
Announcing the 2022 Marshall Scholars
Poll: SIGNIFICANT MAJORITY OF AMERICANS BELIEVE US-UK RELATIONSHIP IS MORE IMPORTANT TODAY THAN IT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO
The importance of the US “Special Relationship” with the UK remains reinforced through public opinion, with 52% of respondents identifying it as the most valuable ally and strategic partner of the US.
A Statement from the AMS
The Association of Marshall Scholars condemns all forms of racism and discrimination. We stand with the Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander community.
UK Government announces 46 winners of the 2021 Marshall Scholarships
The 46 recipients of the 2021 Marshall Scholarships have been unveiled today by the British government. The winners, considered to be among the best and brightest university students and recent graduates in the United States, were chosen following a rigorous selection process and will begin graduate studies at many of the UK’s top academic institutions beginning in September 2021.
Wind Of Change
It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall just fell. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. And the soundtrack to the revolution is one of the best selling songs of all time, the metal ballad “Wind of Change,” by the Scorpions.
Decades later, journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumor: the song wasn’t written by the Scorpions. It was written by the CIA. This is his journey to find the truth.
Wind of Change is an Original Series from Pineapple Street Studios, Crooked Media and Spotify.
The Marshall Arts & Humanities Series: The Nineteenth Amendment Centennial
From Suffrage to Equal Rights: Women and Constitutional Amendments (Friday, July 10, 12-1pm EDT)
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment this summer, please join us for a lunchtime discussion with Julie Suk (1997), Professor of Sociology & Political Science at The Graduate Center, CUNY, who will offer a sneak preview of her book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment (available now for pre-order and forthcoming in August 2020), in conversation with Kathleen Sullivan (1976) partner in Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and former Dean of Stanford Law School.
Welcome remarks by Gene Hickok, Chairman of the Board of The Montpelier Foundation, and moderated by Jeannie Suk Gersen (Marshall Scholar 1995).
The Marshall Arts & Humanities Series: Music
Please join us for a lunchtime listening & online conversation: four musicians and an architect explore musical space and texture in the time of COVID. Programme to include music of Bach, Beaser, Namoradze, Ogonek, and Scriaben, plus some traditional singing. Performers include Michael Poll (2012), Elizabeth Ogonek (2012), Emi Ferguson, Juan Jofre and Nico Namoradze.
A statement from the AMS
Like you, the Association of Marshall Scholars is sickened and angered by recent events. The tragic killing of George Floyd – like Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless other Black Americans over the years -- is a horrific reminder of the systemic racial inequities that have plagued our nation for generations.