Category Archives: Washington History Seminar

Sponsored jointly by the National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Washington History Seminar meets each week, January to May and September to December, on Monday afternoons at 4 o’clock at the Wilson Center. It aims to facilitate understanding of contemporary affairs in light of historical knowledge of all times and all places and from a variety of perspectives. For the latest schedule, please click on Spring 2012 Schedule. For more information on past speakers, topics, and videos, please click on Washington History Seminar Schedule.

Washington History Seminar Fall 2020 Lineup

Washington History Seminar

The National History Center of the American Historical Association and the History & Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are pleased to announce the Fall season of the Washington History Seminar, which will take place online in a webinar format. To receive email updates about each event, including registration for each webinar, please register for our mailing list here.

Seminars this month:

September 10: Thomas A. Schwartz on Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography

September 14: Fredrik Logevall on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956

September 21: Eric Weitz on A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

For the full list of Fall seminars, click here.