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18th and 19th Centuries (1700-1899)

Congressional Briefings

  • NHC Congressional Briefing on the History of Political Partisanship: January 29, 2016
  • NHC Congressional Briefing on History of Incarceration in the United States: October 9, 2015
  • NHC Congressional Briefing on the Federal Role in Race and Reconstruction: March 13, 2006

Washington History Seminars 

  • Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
  • To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
  • The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary World, and the Fate of Empire: November 17, 2014
  • The Secret Ballot in the United States: April 7, 2014
  • Myth of Race: December 9, 2013
  • Malaria, Yellow Fever, and Independence: October 7, 2013
  • Lincoln and Emancipation: International Reactions: May 13, 2013
  • Abraham Lincoln and the Irish: January 23, 2012

	

Upcoming Events

  1. Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    April 19 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  2. Latin America & the Global Cold War

    April 26 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  3. The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History

    May 3 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  4. Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

    May 10 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  5. A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit

    May 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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