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2022 Montana Academic Library Symposium

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Tuesday, the 18th
10:15 - 11:15 am

Learned institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind, which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. 
- James Madison

Interested in the current and future status of democracy across the state, country, and globe? The intersection between the theoretical and the historical with the actual and the current may be closer than you think. We hope you can join us for a discussion on On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder led by Professor Jan Zauha, Outreach Librarian, Archives and Special Collections at Montana State University - Bozeman.

"The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. 
On Tyranny is a call to arms and a guide to resistance, with invaluable ideas for how we can preserve our freedoms in the uncertain years to come."

https://www.timothysnyder.org/books/on-tyranny-tr

Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin and Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning. Snyder is a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2017. 126p. Paper, $7.99 (ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4).

An e-copy is available for a 3 day loan period for any staff member of a TRAILS institution.