Peter Krogh Television Program Files
Collection
Identifier: GTM-091101
This collection contains background/research material in the form of copies of news articles, papers and reports for the topics of two PBS television series on U.S. foreign affairs, moderated from 1980 to 2005 by Peter Krogh, Dean, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. The series were: "American Interests," and "Great Decisions" (also known as "World Beat: Great Decisions in Foreign Policy"). The latter was a collaboration of the Foreign Policy Association and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and was produced by World Beat Associates, beginning in 1989, an adjunct of the latter institution. Topics primarily covered economic and military relations with African countries, Canada, Latin America, and the Soviet Union. Specific information about each program is provided in series notes. Subject headings for this collection do not exhaustively cover all topics, therefore, a full search at the container summary level is recommended. Background files are not available for the entire series. Where possible, episode numbers are noted in folder descriptions/labels and correspond to existing audio-visual recordings in the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archive.
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Peter Frederic Krogh is an academic and diplomat who served as Dean of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service from 1970 to 1995. Born in California in 1937, Krogh graduated from Harvard University in 1958 with a B.A. cum laude in Economics and later received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Since then, prominent positions he has held include White House Fellow, Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University.
Between 1981 and 2005, Peter Krogh moderated 270 half-hour PBS television programs spread across three television series, including American Interests, World Beat, and Great Decisions. In each episode, he interviewed experts, leaders, and other notable individuals about relevant topics of the time. Noteworthy individuals interviewed include Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, King Hussein, and many others.
(Source: Peter F. Krogh. Wikipedia. Retrieved November 9, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Krogh)
5 Cubic Feet (5 boxes and 2 folders)
English
The collection is organized into 7 series:
Series 1. Program: "American Interests"
Series 2. Program: "Great Decisions"
Series 3. Program: "World Beat: Great Decisions in Foreign Policy" and World Beat Associates
Series 4. Foreign Policy Association
Series 5. Program: "American Interests" Addenda
Series 6. Peter Krogh / Miscellaneous Files
Series 7. Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
Gift of Peter F. Krough, 2010, 2022, 2023.
The collection combines three accessions: GTM-091101, GTM-20221109, and GTM-20231114.
Processing decisions prior to November 2022 have not been recorded. In 2022, one folder of correspondence and promotional materials related to the Great Decisions program was added to the collection (Accession GTM-20221109). At that time, the finding aid for the collection was edited for DACS compliance. The Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives was added to the collection as Series 7.
Accession GTM-20231114 added to the collection in November 2023.
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository