Washington History Seminar

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  5/19/2022
  

  Washington History Seminar: New Scholarship on the Wars in Vietnam-May 23

  The Washington History Seminar discusses Christopher Goscha's history of the Vietnamese war for liberation against French colonialism. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  4/11/2022
  

  TODAY: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

  Today, Gary Gerstle discusses the fall of the neoliberal political order in a discussion with Lizabeth Cohen and Kristina Spohr as part of the National History Center's Washington History Seminar. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  10/15/2021
  

  Divisions: A New History of Racism and Resistance in America’s World War II Military (Washington History Seminar, Mon. Oct. 18)

  Thomas Guglielmo joins the Washington History Seminar to discuss his new history of resistance to racism within the military during the second world war. Monday, October 18, 4:00 PM eastern. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/28/2021
  

  Making the Forever War: Marilyn B. Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism: October 11

  In the Washington History Seminar, Mary Dudziak and Mark Philip Bradley discuss their edited volume of the work of Marilyn Young, the preeminent historian of war in the modern United States. Monday, October 11, 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Indentured Students: Elizabeth Tandy Shermer on Student Debt (Monday, October 4)

  Elizabeth Tandy Shermer shows that Democrats and Republicans intentionally wanted to create a student loan industry instead of generously funding colleges and universities, which eventually left millions of Americans drowning in student debt. Zoom, Monday, Oct. 4, 4:00 PM EDT.

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  9/17/2021
  

  The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Washington History Seminar, Mon. 9/27)

  Eric Zolov addresses the Washington History Seminar to talk about his revisionist interpretation of Mexican history in the 1960s, when the government tried "to broaden Mexico's international relations and break free of economic subordination to Washington." Zoom, Monday, Sept. 27, 4:00 PM EDT. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience (Thursday, 9/23)

  Nancy Sherman addresses the Washington History Seminar to discuss the maladaptation of Stoicism to the modern self-help industry and a fuller understanding of the lessons of the school. Zoom, September 23, 4:00 EDT. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center and Woodrow Wilson Center
  9/17/2021
  

  Traveling Black: Mia Bay Joins the Washington History Seminar, September 20

  Mia Bay's new book "places the right to unrestricted mobility at the center of the twentieth-century black freedom struggle." She addresses the Washington History Seminar on Monday, September 20 at 4:00 EDT. 

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  4/9/2021
  

  Washington History Seminar – Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

  Professor Kate Masur joins the Washington History Seminar on Monday, April 19 to discuss "Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction."

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center and National History Center
  4/9/2021
  

  Washington History Seminar – Stalin: Passage to Revolution, Monday, April 12

  Ronald Grigor Suny of the University of Michigan joins the Washington History Seminar on Monday, April 12 to discuss "Stalin: Passage to Revolution" at 

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  1/25/2021
  

  Virtual Event: Joan Wallach Scott's "On the Judgment of History" FRIDAY JAN. 29

  Please join the National History Center of the American Historical Association for a Washington History Seminar roundtable on On the Judgment of History with author Joan Wallach Scott. Friday, January 29, 4:30 PM EST

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  10/14/2020
  

  Julia Rose Kraut: Threat of Dissent: A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States

  Julia Rose Kraut's "Threat of Dissent" examines major court decisions and legislation affecting the deportation of political radicals in the face of the First Amendment and America's stated ideals, while showing the lives of the people involved. She addressed the National History Center's Washington History Seminar this October.

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  9/14/2020
  

  JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 (Video)

  Author Fredrik Logevall discusses his new political biography of JFK in a virtual seminar with the National History Center.