Graduate Conference

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 […]

Call for Papers for the 2022 APHI Graduate Conference Announced!

We’re back! The Boston University American Political History Institute (APHI) welcomes submissions for its rescheduled twelfth annual graduate student conference April 8-9, 2022. Our theme asks panelists to consider the role of cities in U.S. political history. Cities have been laboratories for political movements and social reform, while the exercise of political power has shaped […]