The History and Public Policy Program and the American Historical Association are pleased to announce the Spring 2025 Washington History Seminar lineup. All sessions take place on Zoom webinar Mondays from 4–5:30pm ET unless otherwise noted. Recordings of past sessions are available through the links after they occur.
January 13: Isaac Stanley-Becker, Europe without Borders: A History
January 27: Marlene Daut, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
February 3: Maurice Casey, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals
February 10: Elyse Graham, Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II
March 3: Michael David-Fox, Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule
March 10: Samuel J. Hirst, Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939
March 17: Richard Overy, Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan (3pm-4:30pm)
March 24: Laura Hobson Faure, Who Will Rescue Us?: The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust
March 31: Kornel Chang, A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation
April 7: Sandrine Kott, A World More Equal. An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War
April 21: Erin O'Halloran, East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars
May 5: David Commins, Saudi Arabia: A Modern History
May 12: Gretchen Heefner, Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments
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