Seminars
International Seminar on Decolonization is a summer program generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to bring together young historians from the U.S. and aboard to Washington, DC to study to discuss the history of decolonization in the 20th-century. The seminar will run in July in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.
February 2nd, 2012
The National History Center has announced the names of the fifteen scholars selected to participate in the seventh annual International Seminar on Decolonization. They and their proposed projects are: Elisabetta Bini, European University Institute, Florence, “From Colony to Oil Producer: International Oil Politics in Libya, 1951-1969”; Michael Collins, University College London, “Sir Andrew Cohen: Decolonization, [...]
January 27th, 2012
Warren Kimball edited Churchill & Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, published by Princeton University Press in 1984. In his presentation to the January 30 edition of the Washington History Seminar, he will reflect on the problems he faced in compiling letters and other communications, on research in the pre-computer age, and on his thoughts about the [...]
January 25th, 2012
Through the kindness of our partner in the Washington History Seminar, the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, webcasts of all but two fall 2011 sessions are now available. The sessions featuring Stephen Kinzer and James Hershberg have not yet been posted on the Wilson Center website. Links [...]
January 20th, 2012
“Lincoln, more than any other American, and more than most great men of any country,” the Irish Times remarked in 1920, “is an international character.” All sides to the “Irish Question”—from Éamon de Valera to David Lloyd George—found occasion to invoke Abraham Lincoln. Approaching Irish political history from this angle casts fresh light on the [...]
December 1st, 2011
The National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars have released the spring schedule for their weekly Washington History Seminar. The seminar takes place each Monday afternoon at 4 p.m. at the Wilson Center in downtown Washington, DC. Check the National History Center website for announcements of the individual sessions. Jan. 23: [...]
September 1st, 2011
Applications must be received by November 1, 2011 The National History Center invites applications from early-career scholars to participate in the seventh international summer seminar on decolonization, which will be held for four weeks, from Sunday, July 8, through Saturday, August 4, 2012, in Washington, D.C. As in the previous six seminars in the series, [...]