Mid 20th Century (1936-1970)

Congressional Briefings

• NHC Congressional Briefing on the History of Political Partisanship: January 29, 2016
• NHC Congressional Briefing on History of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: December 4, 2015
• NHC Congressional Briefing on History of Incarceration in the United States: October 9, 2015
• NHC Congressional Briefing on Tax Reform in the United States: May 8, 2015
• NHC Congressional Briefing on Space Travel: June 15, 2012

Decolonization Seminars

• Spies, Allies & Murder? The Ominous Origins of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Hanoi’s Post-colonial War: July 16, 2014
• Decolonization & the Nation-State: Reflections on the 1958 Referendum in French West Africa: July 22, 2014

Washington History Seminars

• Defenseless Under Night: The Roosevelt Years and the Origins of Homeland Security: September 19, 2016
• The Rise of the Military Welfare State: May 9, 2016
• Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America: April 11, 2016
• Foreign Intervention in Africa During the Cold War: April 4, 2016
• France 1940: Defending the Republic: March 28, 2016
• The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War: March 21, 2016
• Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital: March 14, 2016
• A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War: February 29, 2016
• The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law & Politics: February 8, 2016
• Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World, November 16, 2015
• Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in WWII: October 5, 2015
• Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands: April 27, 2015
• Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America: April 13, 2015
• Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
• Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations Between Washington and Havana: March 16, 2015
• African Americans’ Anticolonialism in the Early Cold War: March 9, 2015
• To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
• Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
• Human Rights before Carter: December 8, 2014
• Civil Rights After Martin Luther King Jr.: December 1, 2014
• Vagrancy Laws and the Long 1960s: January 13, 2014
• General de Gaulle and the Cold War: September 9, 2013
• Origins of the Cold War: February 4, 2013

Additional Events

• Passing the Voting Rights Act, 1965: January 4, 2015 (Audio only)

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