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Congressional Briefings

  • NHC Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis: November 17, 2014

Decolonization Seminars

  • Decolonization & the Nation-State: Reflections on the 1958 Referendum in French West Africa: July 22, 2014

Washington History Seminars

  • Foreign Intervention in Africa During the Cold War: April 4, 2016
  • Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
  • Investing Indebtedness: World History and Impoverishment in Africa: September 16, 2013
  • The Lumumba Assassination: April 9, 2012
  • Barbary Coasts: North Africa, Colonialism, and the Mediterranean: February 6, 2012
  • South Africa and the End of Apartheid: May 2, 2011
  • Unfinished Business: Archives After Conflict in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, and South Africa: January 31, 2011
  • Reflections on the Mau Mau and the End of Empire: September 27, 2010
  • African Americans and Independence Struggles in Asia and Africa: March 1, 2010
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Upcoming Events

  1. On the Judgment of History

    January 29 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
  2. Gateway State: Hawai’i and Cultural Transformation of American Empire

    February 1 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  3. White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea

    February 8 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  4. A Twentieth Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe

    February 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  5. Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

    February 22 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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