January 13: Risa Goluboff: “People Out of Place: A Constitutional History of the Long 1960s”
Vagrancy laws made it a crime to be idle and poor, or dissolute, or to wander about without any purpose.
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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.
December 9: Jacqueline Jones: “The Myth of Race and Its Many Political Uses, from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America”
In this presentation to the Washington History Seminar, Jacqueline Jones focused upon the different uses of the myth of race
Read moreDecember 2: Mae Ngai: “Yellow and Gold: Chinese Gold Miners and the ‘Chinese Question’ in Pacific-World Settler Colonies, 1848-1910”
In this Washington History Seminar presentation, Mae Ngai addressed two transpacific circulations in the late-19th century — the movement of
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