Penny M. Von Eschen
University of Virginia
Penny M. Von Eschen is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder Since 1989 (2022), Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (2004), and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957 (1997).
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