[The Washington History Seminar has quite a lineup for spring 2015. “The seminar is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center.” It meets Mondays at 4:00 p.m. in the Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room, Ronald Reagan Building, Federal Triangle Metro Stop. The “schedule, speakers, topics, and dates as well as webcasts and podcasts” are here. “The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations for its support.”]
January 12: Robyn Muncy (University of Maryland), on Relentless Reformer: Josephine Roche and the Persistence of Progressivism in Twentieth-Century America
January 19: No seminar (Martin Luther King Day)
January 26: Kathy Peiss (University of Pennsylvania), on Bookmen at War: Libraries, Intelligence, and Cultural Policy in World War II
February 2: Pawel Machcewicz (Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk) on Poland's War on Radio Free Europe
February 9: Charles Neu (Brown University) on Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner
February 16: No seminar (President's Day)
February 23: Bat Sparrow (University of Texas) on The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
March 2: Heather Cox Richardson (Boston College) on To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party
March 9: Carol Anderson (Emory University) on Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation
March 16: William LeoGrande (American University) and Peter Kornbluh (National
Security Archive) on Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana
March 23: Martha Hodes (NYU) on Mourning Lincoln
Report from the Field: Sharita Thompson on the Hill's Center Emancipation Day program
March 30: Bruce Kuklick (University of Pennsylvania) on Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba
April 6: No seminar (Passover)
April 13: Christopher Darnton (Catholic University) on Rivalry and Alliance Politics in Cold War Latin America
April 20: David Armitage (Harvard University) and Jo Guldi (Brown University), panel discussion of The History Manifesto, with John McNeill (Georgetown University) and Rosemarie Zagarri (George Mason University)
April 27: Sulmaan Khan (Tufts University) on Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands
May 4: Doug Rossinow (Metropolitan State University) on The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s
May 11: James Loeffler (University of Virginia) on The Sovereignty of a Higher Law?: Global Antisemitism and Jewish Politics in the 1960s
May 18: Kate Brown (University of Maryland Baltimore County) on Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
