Fall 2021 Washington History Seminar Lineup

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. All webinars will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel.
September 13-Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston
Rethinking American Grand Strategy
September 20-Mia Bay
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
September 23-Nancy Sherman
Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons For Modern Resilience
September 27-Eric Zolov
The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties
October 4-Elizabeth Shermer
Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt
October 11-Mark Bradley and Mary Dudziak
Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism
October 18-Thomas Guglielmo
Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military
October 25-Benjamin Young
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader: North Korea and the Third World
November 1-Linda Colley
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
November 8-Mary Sarotte
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
November 15-Kate Larson
Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
November 29-Margaret Jacobs
After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands
December 6-Caley Horan
Insurance Era: Risk, Governance, and the Privatization of Security in Postwar America
December 13-Vladislav Zubok
Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
December 20-Robert Parkinson
Thirteen Clocks: How Race United the Colonies and Made the Declaration of Independence