The Spring 2019 schedule for the Washington History Seminar is out:January 14 Panel Discussion: Joshua Shifrinson on Rising Titans, Falling Giant: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts; Joseph Parent and Paul MacDonald on Twilight of the Titans: Great Power Decline and Retrenchment; David Edelstein on Over the Horizon: Time, Uncertainty, and the Rise of Great Powers; Stacie Goddard on When Right Makes Might: Rising Powers and World Order
January 28 Derek Leebaert on Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945-1957
February 4 Kathleen Day on Bankers, Bailouts, and the Struggle to Tame Wall Street
February 12* Fitzhugh Brundage on Civilizing Torture: An American Tradition
February 25 Kate Lemay on Triumph of the Dead: American WWII Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France
March 4 Stephan Kieninger on The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security from Schmidt to Shultz
March 11 Ngoei Wen-Qing on The Arc of Containment: Britain, the United States, and Anticommunism in Southeast Asia
March 18 Devin Fergus on Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
March 25 Gail Hershatter on Women and China’s Revolution
April 1 Sarah Igo on The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
April 4* Robert Jervis on How Statesmen Thing: The Psychology of International Politics
April 8 Jennifer Miller on Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan
April 15 Daniel Immerwahr on How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
April 22 Felix Boecking on No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927-1945
April 29 Konrad Jarausch on Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experience the Twentieth Century
May 6 Piotr Kosicki on Catholics on the Barricades: Poland, France and Revolution, 1891-1956
May 13 Joanne Freeman on The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
*event does not take place on Monday
