January
Josephine Roche and 20th Century Progressivism: January 12, 2015
Dr. Robyn Muncy Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland, College Park
February
Poland’s War on Radio Free Europe: February 2, 2015
Paweł Machcewicz, Professor at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson’s Silent Partner: February 9, 2015
Dr. Charles E. Neu, Professor of History, Emeritus, Brown University; Adjunct Professor of History, University of Miami
The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security: February 23, 2015
Bartholomew Sparrow, Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin
March
To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party: March 2, 2015
Heather Cox Richardson, Professor of History at Boston College
African Americans’ Anticolonialism in the Early Cold War: March 9, 2015
Carol Anderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at Emory University
William Leogrande, Professor of Government at American University and Peter Kornbluh, Director of the National Security Archive’s Chile and Cuba Documentation Projects
Murdering Patrice Lumumba: March 30, 2015
Bruce Kuklick, Nichols Professor of American History Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania
April
Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America: April 13, 2015
Christopher Darnton, Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator at Catholic University
Sulmaan Khan, Assistant Professor of International History and Chinese Foreign Relations at Tufts University
May
The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s: May 4, 2015
Doug Rossinow, Professor of History at Metropolitan State University
September
Russian Revolution: Journeys of Baron Ungern: September 17, 2015
Willard Sunderland, Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati
A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War: September 21, 2015
Leila Fawaz, Professor of Lebanese & Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University
Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery: September 28, 2015
Adam Rothman, Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University
October
Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in WWII: October 5, 2015
Kathy Peiss, Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania
Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750: October 19, 2015
Odd Arne Westad, Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University
November
Speaking Freely: Whitney v. California and American Speech Law: November 9. 2015
Philippa Strum, former Director of the Division of United States Studies at the Woodrow Wilson
Center
Global Rules: America, Britain, and a Disordered World: November 16, 2015
James Cronin, Professor of History at Boston College
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine: November 30, 2015
Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University
December
Catastrophic Diplomacy: The History of US Foreign Disaster Assistance: December 7, 2015
- Julia Irwin, Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida
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