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Washington History Seminar 

March 10: Mark Atwood Lawrence “Foreign Policy by Analogy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Uses of the Vietnam War”

March 10, 2014March 11, 2014 mbarber

Over the four decades since U.S. forces came home from Vietnam, Americans have fiercely debated the lessons that the nation

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March 3 (Rescheduled to April 28): James Graham Wilson: “The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptation, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War”

February 25, 2014March 10, 2014 mbarber

In this presentation to the Washington History Seminar based on his book, The Triumph of Improvisation, James Graham Wilson takes

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February 24: Marilyn Lake: “Australia’s Historic Minimum Wage: A World History Approach”

February 18, 2014February 25, 2014 mbarber

Histories of the minimum wage are usually written within national analytic frameworks. Research in the New York Public Library on

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