![]() ![]() ![]() Students of the social sciences are likely familiar with the maxim, “where you stand depends on where you sit,” a reminder that context matters in understandings of political and historical phenomena. This is not a reactionary political slogan it is a conviction born of her work as founder and director of the Central American Historical Institute from 1982 to 1988 - the height of the Reagan Administration’s covert support for anti-government “contras” in Nicaragua.ĭuring that same time, AU professor and Distinguished Diplomat-in-Residence Anthony Quainton was serving as the US Ambassador to Nicaragua - a position that eventually forced him to confront his own misalignment with the Reagan Administration’s priorities and strategy in Central America. ![]() Elizabeth Cohn, Ronald Reagan’s presidential legacy has been whitewashed. ![]()
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