Author: Nicholas Parker

Call for Papers for the 2025 APHI Graduate Conference Now Available!

For its fifteenth annual graduate student conference, Boston University’s American Political History Institute (APHI) invites submissions that examine violence in American public life. Political violence marked American public life long before the United States’ founding and, as recent presidential elections have shown, expressing political beliefs through violence continues to shape contemporary partisan competition. Acts of […]

October 4th at 12:20p: Jim Campbell Presents “The Gospel According to the Klan: The Rev. Edgar Ray Killen and the 1964 Mississippi Burning Murders.”

The BU American Political history seminar series continues October 4th with our next presenter: Jim Campbell (Stanford) will present an article in progress titled: “The Gospel According to the Klan: The Rev. Edgar Ray Killen and the 1964 Mississippi Burning Murders.” On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights workers – James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and […]

September 20th at 12:20p: Hannah Waits Kicks Off the APHI 2023-2024 Seminar Series

The BU American Political history seminar series will resume on September 20th with our first presenter: Hannah Waits (Harvard) will present an article in progress titled: “Missionary Positions: How American Evangelicals Learned to Love Global AIDS Work, 1985-2005.” From the mid-1980s to mid-2000s, American missionaries conducted widespread information campaigns across the United States to change […]

Lineup for 2023-2024 Seminar Series Announced

This year’s lineup of lunchtime seminars has been announced! All sessions will meet at 12:20pm in 226 Bay State Road, Room 504. September 20- Hannah Waits (Harvard), “Missionary Positions: How American Evangelicals Learned to Love Global AIDS Work.” October 4- Jim Campbell, “The Gospel According to the Klan: The Rev. Edgar Ray Killen and the […]

Call for Papers for the 2023 APHI Graduate Conference Now Available!

For the Boston University American Political History Institute’s (APHI) thirteenth annual graduate student conference, we invite submissions that examine the politics of crisis and catastrophe across many historical themes. Economic crises have undermined the stability of state institutions or caused new ones to be built, while natural disasters have shattered the physical, as well as […]

BOCA LONGA Returns!

From March 24th through 26th, historians from candidate to emeritus, and across the globe, gathered at Boston University for the 3rd BOCA LONGA US History Conference. Presentations ranged across periods and themes, but shared a place on the leading edge of United States History. the conference program can be found here. Thank you to the […]

February 9th at 12:20p: Corinne Field Kicks Off the APHI Spring 2022 Seminar Series

Happy New Year! The BU American Political history seminar series will resume this semester, over Zoom, at 12:20 PM. Our first seminar will convene February 9, 2022 at 12:20. Professor Corinne Field (University of Virginia) will present a draft chapter from her book-in-progress: Her current book project, tentatively titled Grand Old Women: How Abolitionist and […]

The APHI Fall 2021 Seminar Series Continues with David Mayers on November 17

Next Wednesday, November 17, please join us for the second seminar of the semester. Professor David Mayers (Boston University) will discuss his paper, “‘Apologia for Mussolini” from his current book project Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad Before Pearl Harbor, 1935-1941. The seminar begins at 12:20 in room 504 of 226 Bay State Road. To hear more […]