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Intelligence and Underground Activity

Congressional Briefings

  • NHC Congressional Briefing on Oversight of Intelligence Activities: June 9, 2014

Decolonization Seminars

  • Spies, Allies & Murder? The Ominous Origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hanoi’s Post-colonial War: July 16, 2014

Washington History Seminars

  • The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal: February 1, 2016 
  • Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in WWII: October 5, 2015
  • Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
  • Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands: April 27, 2015
  • Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
  • Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana: March 16, 2015
  • The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security: February 23, 2015
  • Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
  • The Family Jewels Then and Now: October 28, 2013
  • Weatherman Underground Terrorism: April 1, 2013
  • The Lumumba Assassination: April 9, 2012
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Upcoming Events

  1. On the Judgment of History

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

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

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

    February 17 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
  5. Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas

    February 22 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

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