Public Health and History of Medicine
Congressional Briefings
- NHC Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis: November 17, 2014
- Professor Randall Packard speaks at the Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis
- Professor Greg Mitman speaks at the Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis
- Professor Julie Livingston speaks at the Congressional Briefing on Ebola and the African Health Crisis
Washington History Seminars
Africa
Congressional Briefings
Decolonization Seminars
Washington History Seminars
- Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
- Investing Indebtedness: World History and Impoverishment in Africa: September 16, 2013
- The Lumumba Assassination: April 9, 2012
- Barbary Coasts: North Africa, Colonialism, and the Mediterranean: February 6, 2012
- South Africa and the End of Apartheid: May 2, 2011
- Unfinished Business: Archives After Conflict in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, and South Africa: January 31, 2011
- Reflections on the Mau Mau and the End of Empire: September 27, 2010
- African Americans and Independence Struggles in Asia and Africa: March 1, 2010
The Cold War
Congressional Briefings
Decolonization Seminars
Washington History Seminars
- The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War: March 21, 2016
- The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal: February 1, 2016
- Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World, November 16, 2015
- The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s: May 4, 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
- 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
- Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
- Key Figures at the End of the Cold War: April 28, 2014
- Latin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller: September 30, 2013
- Stalin’s Decision for War in Korea: March 18,2013
- Origins of the Cold War: February 4, 2013
- The United States, Burma, and the Cold War: May 7, 2012
- American Biography After the Cold War: April 4, 2011
- Churchill’s Cold War Revisited: February 14, 2011
- Cold War Legacies: October 18, 2010
- Francois Mitterand and the Dilemmas of the Cold War: September 20, 2010
- Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Soviet Union: March 29, 2010
Intelligence and Underground Activity
Congressional Briefings
Decolonization Seminars
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
Leaders and Other Notable Individuals
Washington History Seminars
- Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law, November 9. 2015
- Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
- Russian Revolution: Journeys of Baron Ungern: September 17, 2015
- The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s: May 4, 2015
- Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
- The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security: February 23, 2015
- Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson’s Silent Partner: February 9, 2015
- Josephine Roche and 20th Century Progressivism: January 12: 2015
- The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary World, and the Fate of Empire: November 17, 2014
- Key Figures at the End of the Cold War: April 28, 2014
- Latin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller: September 30, 2013
- General de Gaulle and the Cold War: September 9, 2013
- Lincoln and Emancipation: International Reactions: May 13, 2013
- Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama :May 6, 2013
- Stalin’s Decision for War in Korea: March 18,2013
- Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation: January 28, 2013
- The Lumumba Assassination: April 9, 2012
- Roosevelt and Churchill: January 30, 2012
- Abraham Lincoln and the Irish: January 23, 2012
- Black Leaders and Leadership: November 21, 2011
- Reassessing Walter Lippmann: November 14, 2011
- Dag Hammarskjold: His Critics and the United Nations in 1956: September 26, 2011
- Kissinger’s Realpolitik and American Exceptionalism: March 28, 2011
- Churchill’s Cold War Revisited: February 14, 2011
- Francois Mitterand and the Dilemmas of the Cold War: September 20, 2010
- C. Vann Woodward and the Civil Rights Movement: May 10, 2010
- Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Soviet Union: March 29, 2010
- Wilson Versus Wilsonian: February 22, 2010
Economic History
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- Josephine Roche and 20th Century Progressivism: January 12: 2015
- Vagrancy Laws and the Long 1960s: January 13, 2014
- History of Supplemental Security Income: November 4, 2013
- Investing Indebtedness: World History and Impoverishment in Africa: September 16, 2013
- Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the South: November 7, 2011 (Podcast)
- Rethinking the History of the French Welfare State: March 7, 2011
- Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves: January 24, 2011
- Oil and World Power: November 29, 2010
- Rising Inequality and the Return of Jim Crow: April 5, 2010
- Modern Economics and the Nemesis of History: March 15, 2010
Technology and Scientific Development
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
Europe
Washington History Seminars
- Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
- The Outbreak of WWI: April 16, 2012
- Peaceful Resolution of Ethnic Tensions: March 26, 2012
- States, Nations, and the Problem of the Nation-State: April 19, 2010
France
Washington History Seminars
Germany
Washington History Seminars
Russia/Soviet Union
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
- Russian Revolution: Journeys of Baron Ungern: September 17, 2015
- Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
- Stalin’s Decision for War in Korea: March 18,2013
- Origins of the Cold War: February 4, 2013
- The Russian Imperial Legacy: March 21, 2011
- Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Soviet Union: March 29, 2010
United Kingdom
Washington History Seminars
- Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World, November 16, 2015
- The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary World, and the Fate of Empire: November 17, 2014
- Inside British Foreign Policy: April 15, 2013
- Roosevelt and Churchill: January 30, 2012
- Churchill’s Cold War Revisited: February 14, 2011
- The Roman and British Empires: December 6, 2010
- How Special has the Anglo-American “Special Relationship” Really Been?: November 8, 2010
Middle East
Washington History Seminars
- A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War: February 29, 2016
- A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War: September 21, 2015
- Bureaucracy, Citizenship and Remembrance in Wartime Iraq: April 22, 2013
- Historical Perspective on the Arab Spring: April 8, 2013
- A Muslim Weimar?: March 4, 2013
- Islam and Democracy for the 21st Century: February 13, 2012
- Missed Opportunities for Peace: The US, Jordan, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War: October 31, 2011
- “Rogue States” and the US: September 19, 2011
- Iran in 1953 and the Uses of Middle East History: September 12, 2011
- Oil and World Power: November 29, 2010
- The History of the West Through Arab Eyes: March 8, 2010
Social History
Washington History Seminars
- The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law & Politics: February 8, 2016
- Changing Concepts of Love in the Eighteenth Century: May 17, 2010
Women
Washington History Seminars
Religion and Religious Relations
Washington History Seminars
Race and Ethnic Relations
Congressional Briefings
- 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 Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Historical Perspective: September 12, 2014**
- NHC Congressional Briefing on Immigration Policy: April 5, 2013
- NHC Congressional Briefing on the Federal Role in Race and Reconstruction: March 13, 2006
Washington History Seminars
- The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War: March 21, 2016
- Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
- African Americans’ Anticolonialism in the Early Cold War: March 9, 2015
- Civil Rights After Martin Luther King Jr.: December 1, 2014
- Myth of Race: December 9, 2013
- Lincoln and Emancipation: International Reactions: May 13, 2013
- Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama :May 6, 2013
- A Muslim Weimar?: March 4, 2013
- Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation: January 28, 2013
- Women, Ecumenism, and Interracial Organizing: December 3, 2012
- Peaceful Resolution of Ethnic Tensions: March 26, 2012
- Abraham Lincoln and the Irish: January 23, 2012
- Black Leaders and Leadership: November 21, 2011
- Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the South: November 7, 2011 (Podcast)
- South Africa and the End of Apartheid: May 2, 2011
- The Protestant Boomerang: American Missionaries and the United States: November 15, 2010
- Reflections on the Mau Mau and the End of Empire: September 27, 2010
- C. Vann Woodward and the Civil Rights Movement: May 10, 2010
- Rising Inequality and the Return of Jim Crow: April 5, 2010
- The History of the West Through Arab Eyes: March 8, 2010
- African Americans and Independence Struggles in Asia and Africa: March 1, 2010
Miscellaneous Events
State and Society
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 Immigration Policy: April 5, 2013
- NHC Congressional Briefing on the Great Depression: May 21, 2009
- NHC Congressional Briefing on the Federal Role in Race and Reconstruction: March 13, 2006
Washington History Seminars
- The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War: March 21, 2016
- The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law & Politics: February 8, 2016
- Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law, November 9. 2015
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- Human Rights before Carter: December 8, 2014
- The Secret Ballot in the United States: April 7, 2014
- Vagrancy Laws and the Long 1960s: January 13, 2014
- Bureaucracy, Citizenship and Remembrance in Wartime Iraq: April 22, 2013
- Historical Perspective on the Arab Spring: April 8, 2013
- Weatherman Underground Terrorism: April 1, 2013
- Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation: January 28, 2013
- Islam and Democracy for the 21st Century: February 13, 2012
- Abraham Lincoln and the Irish: January 23, 2012
- Statelessness in 20th Century America: October 24, 2011
- Civil Military Relations: April 11, 2011
- The “Good Occupation”: Military Government in the American Imagination: March 14, 2011
- Rethinking the History of the French Welfare State: March 7, 2011
- Territory, Statehood, and Sovereignty: From Westphalia to Globalization: February 7, 2011
- The Protestant Boomerang: American Missionaries and the United States: November 15, 2010
- Reflections on the Mau Mau and the End of Empire: September 27, 2010
- Why a Congress and Not a Parliament?: September 13, 2010
- C. Vann Woodward and the Civil Rights Movement: May 10, 2010
- The French and American Revolutions and Modern Democracy: April 26, 2010
- Rising Inequality and the Return of Jim Crow: April 5, 2010
- African Americans and Independence Struggles in Asia and Africa: March 1, 2010
Miscilanious Events
18th and 19th Centuries
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
- Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary World, and the Fate of Empire: November 17, 2014
- The Secret Ballot in the United States: April 7, 2014
- Myth of Race: December 9, 2013
- Malaria, Yellow Fever, and Independence: October 7, 2013
- Lincoln and Emancipation: International Reactions: May 13, 2013
- Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama :May 6, 2013
- Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation: January 28, 2013
- Barbary Coasts: North Africa, Colonialism, and the Mediterranean: February 6, 2012
- Abraham Lincoln and the Irish: January 23, 2012
- America’s International Civil War: April 25, 2011
- The Roman and British Empires: December 6, 2010
- The Protestant Boomerang: American Missionaries and the United States: November 15, 2010
- Changing Concepts of Love in the Eighteenth Century: May 17, 2010
- The French and American Revolutions and Modern Democracy: April 26, 2010
- States, Nations, and the Problem of the Nation-State: April 19, 2010
Early 20th Century (1900-1935)
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
- Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law, November 9. 2015
- A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War: September 21, 2015
- Russian Revolution: Journeys of Baron Ungern: September 17, 2015
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson’s Silent Partner: February 9, 2015
- Josephine Roche and 20th Century Progressivism: January 12: 2015
- History of Supplemental Security Income: November 4, 2013
- The Outbreak of WWI: April 16, 2012
- The End of the German Paradigm: March 19, 2012
- Reassessing Walter Lippmann: November 14, 2011
- Wilson Versus Wilsonian: February 22, 2010
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 Space Travel: June 15, 2012
Decolonization Seminars
Washington History Seminars
- The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War: March 21, 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
- Latin America Encounters Nelson Rockefeller: September 30, 2013
- General de Gaulle and the Cold War: September 9, 2013
- Inside British Foreign Policy: April 15, 2013
- Weatherman Underground Terrorism: April 1, 2013
- Stalin’s Decision for War in Korea: March 18,2013
- Origins of the Cold War: February 4, 2013
- The United States, Burma, and the Cold War: May 7, 2012
- The Lumumba Assassination: April 9, 2012
- Roosevelt and Churchill: January 30, 2012
- American Exceptionalism: A Global Perspective: December 5, 2011
- Black Leaders and Leadership: November 21, 2011
- Reassessing Walter Lippmann: November 14, 2011
- Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the South: November 7, 2011 (Podcast)
- Missed Opportunities for Peace: The US, Jordan, and the 1967 Arab-Israeli War: October 31, 2011
- Statelessness in 20th Century America: October 24, 2011
- Dag Hammarskjold: His Critics and the United Nations in 1956: September 26, 2011
- Iran in 1953 and the Uses of Middle East History: September 12, 2011
- The Russian Imperial Legacy: March 21, 2011
- Churchill’s Cold War Revisited: February 14, 2011
- Oil and World Power: November 29, 2010
- Reflections on the Mau Mau and the End of Empire: September 27, 2010
- C. Vann Woodward and the Civil Rights Movement: May 10, 2010
- Nikita Khrushchev and the Fate of the Soviet Union: March 29, 2010
- American Ascendancy in the Pacific: March 22, 2010
- African Americans and Independence Struggles in Asia and Africa: March 1, 2010
- International Human Rights in Historical Perspective: February 1, 2010
Miscilanious Events
Late 20th Century (1971-1999)
Congressional Briefings
Washington History Seminars
- The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law & Politics: February 8, 2016
- The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal: February 1, 2016
- Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World, November 16, 2015
- The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s: May 4, 2015
- Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America: April 13, 2015
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security: February 23, 2015
- Key Figures at the End of the Cold War: April 28, 2014
- The Family Jewels Then and Now: October 28, 2013
- Investing Indebtedness: World History and Impoverishment in Africa: September 16, 2013
- German Unification Twenty-Five Years Later: May 20, 2013
- The Contested Legacy of the Berlin Wall, October 17, 2011
- Why We Botch the End of Wars: October 3, 2011
- “Rogue States” and the US: September 19, 2011
- South Africa and the End of Apartheid: May 2, 2011
- American Biography After the Cold War: April 4, 2011
- Kissinger’s Realpolitik and American Exceptionalism: March 28, 2011
- The Eternal Question of Counterinsurgency: May 3, 2010
- Rising Inequality and the Return of Jim Crow: April 5, 2010
- Modern Economics and the Nemesis of History: March 15, 2010
21st Century
Congressional Briefings
- NHC Congressional Briefing on the History of Political Partisanship: January 29, 2016
- NHC Congressional Briefing on History of Incarceration in the United States: October 9, 2015
- NHC Congressional Briefing on the Ukraine Crisis: January 23, 2015*
- NHC Congressional Briefing on Oversight of Intelligence Activities: June 9, 2014
Washington History Seminars
- The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Law & Politics: February 8, 2016
- To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
- Historical Perspective on the Arab Spring: April 8, 2013
- Islam and Democracy for the 21st Century: February 13, 2012
- Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves: January 24, 2011
- Rising Inequality and the Return of Jim Crow: April 5, 2010
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