The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) and the George Washington University History Department for their support.
January 8 Melvyn Leffler on Safeguarding Democratic Capitalism: U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, 1920-2015
January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 22 Sheryll Cashin on Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Surpremacy
January 29 Rebecca Erbelding on Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe
February 5 Ibram Kendi on Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
February 12 Andrew Demshuk on Demolition on Karl Marx Square: Cultural Barbarism and the People’s State in 1968
February 15* Vietnam: The Kissinger-Le Duc Tho Negotiations, August 1969-December 1973 with John Carland, George Herring, Winston Lord, and Steve Randolph
February 19 President’s Day
February 26 Xolela Mangcu on Nelson Mandela: The Aristocrat and the Revolution –A Historical Biography
March 5 John Lawrence on The Class of ’74: Congress After Watergate and the Roots of Partisanship
March 12 Steven Kotkin on Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
March 19 Anne Fleming on City of Debtors: A Century of Fringe Finance
March 26 William Hitchcock on The Age of Eisenhower
April 2 A.G. Hopkins on American Empire: A Global History
April 9 Samuel Walker on Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968
April 16 Steven Ross on Hitler in Los Angeles
April 23 Herrick Chapman on France’s Long Reconstruction: In Search of a the Modern Republic
April 30 Edward Ayers on The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
May 7 Jill Norgren on A Life in Law: Tales from 20th Century Women Lawyers
May 14 Elaine Weiss on The Woman’s Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the Vote
May 21 Johann Neem on Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place on Mondays at 4:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Boardroom
Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop