The National History Center of the American Historical Association and the History & Public Policy Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are pleased to announce the Spring season of the Washington History Seminar, which will take place online in a webinar format.
January 11: David Nasaw
The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War
January 20: Joan Wallach Scott
On the Judgment of History
January 25: Claudio Saunt
Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
February 1: Sarah Miller-Davenport
Gateway State: Hawai’i and Cultural Transformation of American Empire
February 8: Tyler Stovall
White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea
February 17: Giuliana Chamedes
A Twentieth Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
February 22: Mark Levinson
Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
February 26: Catherine Grace Katz
The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War
March 1: Brandon R. Byrd
The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti
March 8: Rosie Bsheer
Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
March 15: Marvin Kalb
Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War
March 22: Laura Robson
The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
March 29: Christopher Capozzola
Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century
April 5: Amanda Frost
You are Not a Citizen: Citizen Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers
April 12: Ronald Grigor Suny
Stalin: Passage to Revolution
April 19: Kate Masur
Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
April 26: Vanni Pettina
Latin America & the Global Cold War
May 3: James M. Banner Jr.
The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History
May 10: Alex Wellerstein
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
May 17: Joanne Meyerowitz
A War on Global Poverty: The Lost Promise of Redistribution and the Rise of Microcredit
May 24: Louis Menand
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
June 1: Jeremy Brown
June Fourth: The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
June 7: Donald Ritchie
The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson’s Washington
June 14: Dorothy Sue Cobble
For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality
June 28: Patricia Sullivan
Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White
