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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]