The seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partners (the George Washington University History Department and the Lepage Center for History in the Public Interest) for their continued support
January 13-Sidney Blumenthal
The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln: Volumes I-III
January 21-David Roll (Tuesday)
George Marshall: Defender of the Republic
January 27-Jeremy Popkin
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
January 30-Norman Naimark (Thursday)
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
February 3-Astrid M. Eckert
West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
February 10-Amy Offner
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Development States in the Americas
February 24-Lawrence GlickmanFree Enterprise: An American History
March 2-Amy Aronson
Crystal Eastman: A Revolutionary Life
March 9-Duncan White
Cold Warriors: Writers Who waged the Literary Cold War
March 16-Giuliana Chamedes
A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican's Battle to Remake Christian Europe
March 23-Eric Weitz
A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States
March 30-Eileen Boris
Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019
April 6-Sarah Miller-Davenport
Gateway State: Hawaii and the Cultural Transformation of America
April 13-Ellen DuBois
Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote
April 20-Sarah Wagner
What Remains: Bringing America's Missing Home from the Vietnam War
April 27-Thavoila Glymph
The Women’s Fight: The Civil War’s Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation
May 4-Sarah Milov
The Cigarette: A Political History
May 11-John Connelly
From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
May 18-Benjamin Hopkins
Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State.
