Washington History Seminar Fall 2014 Lineup
The Washington History Seminar, sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center, announces its Fall 2014 schedule.
The Washington History Seminar, sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center, meets weekly during the academic year to provide a forum for the in-depth discussion of important new historical research and perspectives in international and national affairs. The weekly seminar brings together Washington area and visiting historians and researchers from the worlds of academia, journalism and government. The Washington history seminar is co-sponsored by the National History Center (an initiative of the American Historical Association) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, with support from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR). Eric Arnesen, director of the National History Center, and Christian F. Ostermann, director of the Wilson Center’s History & Public Policy Program are the co-chairs.
Please visit the Washington History Seminar page at the Wilson Center for further details and to RSVP for individual talks.
Washington History Seminar Fall 2014 Schedule
September 8: Peter Finn (The Washington Post), on The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
September 15: Lisa Leff (American University) on The Archive Thief
September 22: Malcolm Byrne (The George Washington University) on Iran-Contra: Reagan's Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power
September 29: Akira Iriye (Harvard University), International Affairs and Transnational Relations
October 6: Nathan Connolly (Johns Hopkins University), A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida.
October 13: Columbus Day, no seminar
October 20: Gregory Domber (University of North Florida), on Empowering Revolution: America, Poland, and the End of the Cold War
October 27: Austin Jersild (Old Dominion University), on Sino-Soviet Relations and the Dilemmas of Socialist Bloc Cooperation: Czechoslovaks in Shanghai, 1956-57
November 3: Ken Hughes (University of Virginia), on Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate
November 10: Veterans Day 11/11, no seminar
November 17: Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Monticello/University of Virginia), on The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the Revolutionary World, and the Fate of Empire
November 24: Thanksgiving week, no seminar
December 1: David Chappell (The University of Oklahoma), Waking from the Dream: The Battle over Martin Luther King's Legacy
December 8: Sarah Snyder (American University), on Human Rights Before Carter
December 15: Suzy Kim (Rutgers University), on Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950
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