The Spring 2016 schedule for the Washington History Seminar is out, which much legal history thereon. The seminar meets Mondays, 4:00pm-5:30pm, Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Board Room, Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC.
January 18: No seminar (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
January 25: Timothy Snyder (Yale University) on Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
February 1: David E. Hoffman (Washington Post) on The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
February 8: Elizabeth Borgwardt (Washington University in St. Louis) on The Nuremberg Idea: Crimes against Humanity in History, Laws & Politics
February 15: No seminar (Presidents’ Day)
February 22: Jonathan Schneer (Georgia Tech) on Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and the War Cabinet
February 29: Benny Morris (Ben Gurion University) on “A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War”
March 7: Susan Pedersen (Columbia University) on The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
March 14: Joan Quigley (lawyer and journalist) on Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital
March 21: Meredith Oyen (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) on The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of U.S.-Chinese Relations in the Cold War
March 28: Philip Nord (Princeton University) on France 1940: Defending the Republic
April 4: Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola University Maryland) on Foreign Intervention in Africa: From the Cold War to the War on Terror
April 11: Sam Lebovic (George Mason University) on Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America
April 18: Terry Lautz (Syracuse University) on John Birch: A Life
April 25: Ada Ferrer (New York University) on Freedom’s Mirror Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
May 2: Jeffrey Herf (University of Maryland) on Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989
May 9: Jennifer Mittelstadt (Rutgers University) on The Rise of the Military Welfare State
May 16: Halbert Jones (St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford) on “‘Crimes Against the Security of the Nation’: World War II, the Cold War, and the Evolution of Mexico’s Anti-Sedition Laws, 1941-1970”. The Seminar thanks St. Antony’s College for its sponsorship of this presentation.
