Seminar Series Returns this Spring
Spring 2021 Virtual Seminars: February 10 Chad Williams (Brandeis University) “The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I” February 24 Andrew David (Boston University) “Nelson Rockefeller’s Dreams of Glory: The Quest for National Legitimacy via National Security, 1952-1960” March 31 Julia Irwin (University of South Florida) “The Politics of Relief: Tracing […]
Lineup for 2019-2020 Seminar Series Announced
APHI SEMINAR LINEUP—2019-2020 September 18 Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University) “Truth and Power: The Civil Rights Movement and Education” October 16 Aaron Lecklider (UMASS-Boston) “‘Socialism & Sex Is What I Want’: Radical Women and Homosexuality in the 1930s and 40s” November 13 Joe Ryan-Hume (University of Glasgow) ‘Lynching the Loony’: Robert Bork and A Liberal Battle […]
Nicholas Guyatt to deliver next lunch talk
Please join us next Wednesday, April 10 for a talk by Nicholas Guyatt (Cambridge). His talk is entitled, “Dartmoor Prison and the pre-history of Carceral Segregation, 1813-1815.” Join us at 12:20 in room 504 of the History Department building. Lunch will be served. Guyatt is Reader in North American History at the University of Cambridge. […]
Margaret O’Mara joins us for the next seminar
Margaret O’Mara (University of Washington) joins us next Wednesday, March 20 at 12:20 in room 504 of the History Department. She will discuss her pre-circulated paper, “‘The Computer Never Forgets’: Revisiting the Data Privacy Wars of the 1960s.” O’Mara is the Howard & Frances Keller Professor of History at the University of Washington. She […]
Matt Pressman to deliver next seminar on 2/27
Join us on Wednesday, February 27 at 12:20. Professor Matthew Pressman (Seton Hall University) will present his paper, “Tabloid Journalism and Right-Wing Populism: The New York Daily News in the Mid-20th Century.” Pressman is Assistant Professor of Journalism at Seton Hall University and author of On Press: The Liberal Values that Shaped the News (2018).
1/23/19: Duco Hellema presents “Reflections on The Global 1970s”
Please join us Wednesday, January 23, 2019 at 12:20PM for Duco Hellema’s presentation on his new book, The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis. Hellema is emeritus Professor in the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht, and his other publications include The Netherlands in the World: The Foreign Policy of the Netherlands (Spectrum, 2014) and The […]
Professor Jessica Wang (U. British Columbia) to deliver next lunch talk
Please join us next Wednesday, November 7 at 12:20 in History 504 for Professor Jessica Wang’s seminar on “Tropical Experiments, Developmental Dreams, and Economic Realities: Agricultural Expertise, Capitalism, and Settler Colonialism in the Territory of Hawaii, 1900-1917.” Jessica Wang works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. history and has pursued a wide range of interests related to the […]
Oscar Winberg to give seminar talk on “Advocacy Groups, Archie Bunker, and Political Television in the 1970s”
Join us Wednesday Oct 24 at 12:20 in Room 504 of the History Department for Winberg’s talk. Winberg is a PhD Candidate at the History Department of Åbo Akademi University in Finland working on modern American political history and mass media. His dissertation project explores the relationship between politics and entertainment television in the seventies, […]
John Rodrigue to deliver next lunch talk
Don’t miss next Wednesday’s lunch talk, delivered by John C. Rodrigue (Stonehill College). Professor Rodrigue will discuss “Repudiating the Emancipation Proclamation and Reestablishing Slavery,” a chapter from his forthcoming book, Fertile Crescent: The Civil War and the Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Rodrigue has most recently published Lincoln and Reconstruction, a volume in Southern Illinois University […]