Washington History Seminar Schedule
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.
September 10: Thomas A. Schwartz on Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography
September 14: Fredrik Logevall on JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
September 21: Eric Weitz on A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
October 2: Martin Sherwin on Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962
October 5: G. John Ikenberry on A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order
October 14: Julia Rose Kraut on Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States
October 19: Simon Miles on Engaging the Evil Empire: Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War
October 26: Ellen DuBois on Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote
November 2: Thavolia Glymph on The Woman’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
November 9: Aino Rosa Kristina Spohr on Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World the World After 1989
November 12: Francine Hirsch on Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal After World War II
November 16:Eileen Boris on Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019
November 23: Benjamin Hopkins on Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State
November 30: Sarah Wagner on What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War
December 2: Victoria de Grazia on The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy
December 7: Mira Siegelberg on Statelessness: A Modern History
December 14: Larry Wolff on Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe
December 21: Toshihiro Higuchi on Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of a Global Environmental Crisis