The 2004 Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium concludes its lecture series on American politics with visits today, Dec. 6, by Bush administration economist Gregory Mankiw, and on Wednesday, Dec. 8, by historian Howard Zinn. Their 45-minute lectures will begin at 8 p.m. in Homewood's Shriver Hall Auditorium and will be followed by question-and-answer periods in the building's Clipper Room.

Mankiw's lecture is titled "The Economic Agenda." Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2003 as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Mankiw is a professor of economics at Harvard and the author of Macroeconomics and Principles of Economics, textbooks that have sold more than a million copies and been translated into 17 languages. He is also a researcher for the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Congressional Budget Office.

Zinn's lecture is titled "Reinventing Peace: Making It a Reality After 9/11." An acclaimed social critic, historian and well-known activist who has been at the forefront of the civil rights and anti-war movements, Zinn is widely known for his revolutionary work A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, which explains history from the perspective of the powerless and disenfranchised. Zinn grew up in immigrant slums in Brooklyn, N.Y., served in World War II and went on to teach at Spelman College, a historically black college, and then at Boston University, where he is a professor emeritus of political science.

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