In 1955, Hannah Arendt held her first visiting professorship at the University of California, Berkeley. Not only did it provide her with economic security, but it also enabled her to experience firsthand the rapidly changing educational landscape in Cold War America. How did this academic appointment reshape her thinking after the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism? What was her transition like from the German university system to a university on the west coast of the American Republic? The aim of this lecture is to investigate Arendt's pedagogy based on heretofore unexamined archival materials. It also invites a critical conversation about liberal education in our contemporary world.