Lineup for 2024-2025 Seminar Series Announced
APHI announces the 2024-25 lineup for the BU US History lunchtime seminars. Seminars convene at 12:20PM in room 504 at the BU History Department, 226 Bay State Road. Lunch will be served. Please join us for this exciting slate of workshops and keep on the lookout for future messages about the 2025 Graduate Student Conference […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tomorrow, October 20 at 12:20p: Natalia Mehlman Petrzela Kicks Off the APHI Fall 2021 Seminar Series
Tomorrow, October 20, please join us for the first APHI seminar of the semester. Professor Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (The New School) will discuss her paper, “‘It’s not working out’: Exercise and the New Inequality” from her forthcoming book “Fit Nation: How America Embraced Exercise as the Government Abandoned it.” The seminar begins at 12:20 in […]
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 […]