The seminar thanks the George Washington University History Department and Villanova’s Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest for their support.
January 14
Panel Discussion: Joshua Shifrinson on Rising Titans, Falling Giant: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts; Joseph Parent and Paul MacDonald on Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment; David Edelstein on Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers; Stacie Goddard on When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
January 28
Derek Leebaert on Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
February 4
Kathleen Day on Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
February 12*
Fitzhugh Brundage on Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition
February 25
Kate Lemay on Triumph of the Dead: American WWII Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France
March 4
Stephan Kieninger on The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security from Schmidt to Shultz
March 11
Ngoei Wen-Qing on The Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia
March 18
Devin Fergus on Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
March 25
Gail Hershatter on Women and China’s Revolution
April 1
Sarah Igo on The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
April 4*
Robert Jervis on How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
April 8
Jennifer Miller on Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan
April 15
Daniel Immerwahr on How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
April 22
Felix Boecking on No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
April 29
Konrad Jarausch on Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experience the Twentieth Century
May 6
Piotr Kosicki on Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France and Revolution, 1891-1956
May 13
Joanne Freeman on The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
*Note that this event does not take place on Monday.
All seminars take place at 4:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Boardroom
Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop