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 […]
2018-2019 Seminar Series Lineup Announced!
David Atkinson will give next seminar series talk
We are pleased to announce the theme of our next lunch talk, to be held on Wednesday, April 18 at 12:20. Professor David Atkinson (Purdue) will present his paper, “Imports, European Empires, and American Political Economy during the First World War.” Atkinson received his Ph.D. in history from Boston University in 2010. His forthcoming book is entitled The […]
Timothy Stewart-Winter (Rutgers) to deliver next lunch talk!
We are excited to host Timothy Stewart-Winter on Wednesday March 21 for our next lunch talk seminar. Professor Stewart Winter will discuss his current book project. The accompanying paper is titled,”The Fall of Walter Jenkins: Sexuality and the Politics of Policing in the 1960s.” Stewart-Winter is an associate professor of U.S. history at Rutgers University. […]
2018 Grad Conference program now available – Open to the public!
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Jayita Sarkar to speak at next lunch talk
We are pleased to announce that Jayita Sarkar (BU) will visit the APHI seminar room next Wednesday, Jan 31 to speak about her paper, “Whack-a-Mole: American Policy to Curb West European Nuclear Exports, 1974-1978.” Please join us for lunch at 12:20! Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s […]
Deadline Extended: 10th Annual Graduate Student Conference
Deadline Extended: Jan 26 Check out the CFP here: https://www.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conference/
Brooke Blower to speak at APHI Seminar
Join us this Wednesday for Professor Brooke Blower’s presentation, “Hope and Betrayal in the Pacific War: The Making of an American Radio Correspondent in Southeast Asia.” Brooke Blower is Associate Professor of History at Boston University. Her first book, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2011) won the Gilbert […]
New talk added, updated flyer!
February 14, John Rodrigue (Stonehill College), “The Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War” APHI 2018