May 14th, 2013
After the first quarter century of development since the overthrow of Communism and the reunification of East and West Germany, how does one draw up a balance sheet? How can one assess the transfer of political institutions, the economic crises, the difficulties of women’s adjustment? There were substantial developments but also significant failures. Many of [...]
May 13th, 2013
The National History Center of the American Historical Association has announced the lecturers who will speak in conjunction with the Eighth International Seminar on Decolonization, July 8 through August 2, 2013. Elizabeth Borgwardt, associate professor of history and law at Washington University in St. Louis, will give the first public lecture, scheduled for 4 p.m. [...]
May 11th, 2013
C-SPAN 3′s American History TV aired the National History Center’s Congressional Briefing, Historical Perspectives on Congress and Immigration Policy, at 5:45 a.m. and 9:45 a.m. EDT Sunday, May 12, and at 1:45 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 13. The program is now available from C-SPAN’s Video Library at Congressional Briefing on Immigration – C-SPAN. A [...]
May 10th, 2013
National History Center Director Wm. Roger Louis has won the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature, the oldest literary society in Britain, founded in 1820 to honor “meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history and belles-lettres.” The medal, the society’s highest recognition of lifetime achievement, is awarded, according to the Society, “to those whom [...]
April 19th, 2013
During the American Civil War Abraham Lincoln stated that his paramount object was to save the Union, leading many since to question his reputation as “The Great Emancipator.” Emancipation and the nation’s unity were indivisible in Lincoln’s mind, and it was for the fusion and pursuit of these two ideas that British and other foreign [...]
