DA Hellema to Present: The Global Seventies
Mark September 7 on your calendars for a very special presentation co-sponsored by BU History and APHI: Duco Hellema (University of Utrecht), “The Radical Decade: A Global History of the 1970s”! Hellema is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Utrecht, and his publications include The Netherlands in the World: The Foreign […]
Upcoming book talk at Harvard Book Store: Meg Jacobs on the Seventies Energy Crisis
Tomorrow night at 7, Meg Jacobs (Princeton) is in town discussing her new book, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s at the Harvard Book Store (1256 Massachusetts Ave in Cambridge). Click the link for a synopsis of the project as well as further details about the event: http://www.harvard.com/event/meg_jacobs/?utm_source=Meg+Jacobs+Invite&utm_campaign=MegJacobsInvite&utm_medium=email. Jacobs is Research Scholar […]
Jon Roberts to give talk on Protestants’ Defense of the Sanctity of Mind
We are excited to announce that next Wednesday, April 27, at noon in room 504 of the History Department Building (226 Bay State Rd), Professor Jon Roberts (BU) will present his paper, “‘The Citadel Itself’: American Protestants’ Defense of the Sanctity of Mind, 1820-1870.” Prof. Roberts is Tomorrow Foundation Professor of History at Boston University. […]
APHI grad conference program now available!
Click on the link to grab a PDF of your own: https://www.bu.edu/aphi/grad-conference/
Katherine Marino to give talk on “women’s rights and human rights” on March 16!
We are pleased to announce that Katherine Marino (Ohio State) will be our guest presenter during the next APHI seminar on Wednesday, March 16 at Noon in the History Department (226 Bay State Rd), room 504. The subject of the talk will be “Mobilizing Women’s Rights and Human Rights in War.” Marino is a 2015-2016 visiting scholar at the American Academy […]
Lily Geismer to present paper on “Doing Good: Public Policy and the Market”
Lily Geismer, Assistant Professor of History at Claremont McKenna College and Fellow in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, will present her paper, “Doing Good: Liberal Uses of the Market to Help the Poor from the War on Poverty through the Clinton Era” as part of the APHI’s seminar series. Please join us […]
Megan Black (Harvard) to give talk on “Equivocal Imperialism in the New Deal”
We are pleased to announce that Megan Black (Harvard) will be our guest presenter during the next APHI seminar on Wednesday, November 18 at Noon in the History Department (226 Bay State Rd), room 504. The subject of the talk will be “A Far-Flung Interior: American Territories, Strategic Minerals, and Equivocal Imperialism in the New Deal.” Black is a Fellow at Harvard’s […]
2016 Grad Conference flyer now available!
Check out the 2016 Grad Conference Call for Papers flyer below, and save a PDF of your own by clicking here: 2016 grad conference cfp flyer
“Seeing Beyond the Partisan Divide” symposium scheduled for Oct 2-3
The Miller Center, University of Virginia Page-Barbour Interdisciplinary Initiatives Committee, and the American Political History Institute are pleased to announce “Seeing Beyond the Partisan Divide. ” Scheduled for October 2-3, 2015 at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, the symposium will develop new paradigms in postwar U.S. political history that transcend partisan or ideological historical […]