We are pleased to announce below the exciting schedule of speakers for the spring 2020 season of the Washington History Seminar (WHS). The seminar is one of Washington D.C.’s most intellectually vibrant venues for thinking about the past and establishing its relevance to the present. Further details and RSVP instructions will be made available closer to the date of each event by visiting the Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program website.

January 13 Sidney Blumenthal on The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln: Volumes I-III

January 21 (Tuesday) David Roll on George Marshall Defender of the Republic

January 27 Jeremy Popkin on A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

January 30 (Thursday) Norman Naimark on Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty

February 3 Astrid M. Eckert on West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands

Sessions take place on Mondays (unless noted above) at 4:00 pm, at the Woodrow Wilson Center

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.