Jeffrey A. Engel

Presidential Historian & American Foreign Policy Expert; Founding Director at Center for Presidential History at SMU; Author of 13 Books

Dallas, TX, USA
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Author, College, Education, Geopolitics, History, Non-Fiction Authors, Podcast Host, Political, Professors, World Affairs
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Jeffrey A. Engel Biography

Jeffrey A. Engel is a presidential historian specializing in American history and foreign policy. He is the founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University, professor in the William P. Clements Department of History, and a senior fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. Engel also serves as a senior fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. He graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University, studied at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in American history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He held a John M. Olin Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Security Studies at Yale University.

Engel has taught American history, international relations, and grand strategy at the University of Wisconsin, Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Haverford College. He served at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government & Public Service as the Howard and Verlin Kruse '52 Professor and director of programming for the Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs. During his tenure, he received a Silver Star Award for Teaching and Mentorship, a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Association of Former Students, and a Texas A&M University System Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award. The Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations named him their Bernath Prize lecturer, and Southern Methodist University Residence Life students voted him campus-wide Hope Professor of the Year.

Engel is the author or editor of 13 books on American diplomacy and politics and hosts the podcast "The Past, the Promise, The Presidency." His publications include "Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy," which received the Paul Birdsall Prize from the American Historical Association; "Local Consequences of the Global Cold War"; "The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President"; and "The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989." Additional works include "When the World Seemed New: George H.W. Bush and the End of the Cold War," "The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush's Decision to Surge in Iraq," and, co-authored with Jon Meacham, Peter Baker, and Timothy Naftali, "Impeachment: An American History."

A frequent contributor on international and political affairs for media such as CNN, NPR, CNBC, MSNBC, and BBC, Engel's scholarly and popular articles have appeared in Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Diplomatic History. He has also served as the Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Diplomatische Akademie Wien (Vienna School of International Studies). Engel is recognized for translating complex historical events into accessible narratives for audiences interested in the American presidency, international relations, and U.S. foreign policy.

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Jeffrey A. Engel Speaking Topics

  • Surviving America’s Existential Crises

    Every generation faces crises. Yet only three times in our nation’s history has the republic’s very existence been in doubt. George Washington left his well-earned retirement to provide a symbol of stability and virtue the new nation would not have formed without. Abraham Lincoln oversaw a country rent in two. Franklin D. Roosevelt governed during an economic crisis so great many wondered if democracy itself could survive. Today our politically-riven nation may well face only the fourth existential crisis in its long history, and only the lessons of the past can help navigate the rocky shoals ahead.

  • What Would FDR Say Today

    George Washington set precedents. Lincoln preserved the union. But only Franklin D. Roosevelt won the nation’s highest office four times. Only Roosevelt faced an economic crisis so severe it remains our benchmark for calamity. Only Roosevelt saw a world on the brink, knowing that his leadership was all that stood between isolationism and war. Known to subsequent generations by his easily-recalled initials, FDR, he defined American politics for a generation and for generations to come. He’s not here with us now. If he were, what would he say and do?

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Jeffrey A. Engel Videos

Jeffery Engel | Presidents in Film & TV, from 'Lincoln' to 'The Comey Rule'

Jeffery Engel | Presidents in Film & TV, from 'Lincoln' to 'The Comey Rule'

Presidential historian Jeffrey Engel fact checks presidential scenes from movies and television including 'Frost/Nixon,' 'Lincoln,' 'Pearl Harbor,'...

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Local Consequences of the Global Cold War
Local Consequences of the Global Cold War
America in the World
America in the World
When The World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
When The World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War
Impeachment: An American History
Impeachment: An American History
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea
The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror

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Jeffrey A. Engel is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Surviving America’s Existential Crises, What Would FDR Say Today, The Untold Story of the Cold War’s End, and Why We Are All Lucky to Have Survived and Putin and the Presidents. The estimated speaking fee range to book Jeffrey A. Engel for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Jeffrey A. Engel generally travels from Dallas, TX, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are H.W. Brands, Jeffrey Rosen, Brad Meltzer, Akhil Amar and Doris Kearns Goodwin. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Jeffrey A. Engel for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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