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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.

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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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February 10: Lynne Olson: “Racing Against Time: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over Saving Britain and Going to War”

February 4, 2014February 12, 2014 mbarber

Today, we think of World War II as the “good war” — a necessary conflict to save Western civilization from

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Upcoming Events

  1. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

    January 25 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  2. On the Judgment of History

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

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

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

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

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