Professor and scholar specializing in modern American political and intellectual history, Ellen Fitzpatrick is the author and editor of seven books, including the New York Times best-seller Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation (Ecco); History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880-1980 (Harvard University Press); America in Modern Times, co-authored with Alan Brinkley (McGraw Hill); and Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (Oxford University Press).

Since 2004, she has appeared regularly as a commentator on PBS' The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and has been interviewed as an expert on modern American political history by the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, USA Today, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, the Boston Globe, and the Washington Post.

Fitzpatrick has done radio and television interviews for CNN, Face the Nation, ABC, National Public Radio, CBS, and WGBH-Public Television in Boston.

A sought-after keynote speaker, she has spoken at the Peabody Essex Museum, the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, the Harvard Club, the Nieman Foundation of Harvard, M.I.T., and Indiana University.

She is available to speak about the 50th anniversaries of President Kennedy's 1960 election and 1961 inauguration, as well as the 50th anniversary of his assassination (2013).

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