Washington History Seminar Schedule
January 11: David Nasaw on The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
January 25: Claudio Saunt on Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
January 29: Joan Wallach Scott onOn the Judgment of History
February 1: Sarah Miller-Davenport on Gateway State: Hawai’i and Cultural Transformation of American Empire
February 8: Tyler Stovall on White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
February 17: Giuliana Chamedes on A Twentieth Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
February 22: Marc Levinson on Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
February 26: Catherine Grace Katz on The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
March 1: Brandon R. Byrd on The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
March 8: Rosie Bsheer on Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
March 15: Shaul Bakhash on The Fall of Reza Shah: The Abdication, Exile, and Death of Modern Iran’s Founder
March 22: Laura Robson on The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
March 29: Christopher Capozzola on Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century
April 5: Amanda Frost on You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
April 12: Ronald Grigor Suny on Stalin: Passage to Revolution
April 19: Kate Masur on Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
April 26: Vanni Pettina on Latin America & the Global Cold War
May 3: James M. Banner Jr. onThe Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History
May 10: Alex Wellerstein on Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
May 17: Joanne Meyerowitz on A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit
May 24: Louis Menand on The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
June 1: Jeremy Brown on June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
June 7: Donald Ritchie on The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington
June 14: Dorothy Sue Cobble on For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality
June 21: Teasel Muir-Harmony on Operation Moonglow: A Political History of Project Apollo
June 28: Patricia Sullivan on Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
July 8: Orville Vernon Burton and Armand Derfner on Justice Deferred: Race & The Supreme Court
July 12: Kai Bird on The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter
July 19: Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer on Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II
July 26: Marvin Kalb on Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors as well as the George Washington University History Department and Villanova’s Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest for their support.