Special Events

Nicole Hemmer to visit BU

We are excited to announce that Nicole Hemmer (UVA) is in town next week, November 15 & 16 for a pair of talks at BU. On Tuesday, November 15 at 6:00pm, she will be leading a graduate student professionalization workshop, Beyond the Op-Ed Page: Public Engagement in the New Media Age. Then, on Wednesday, November 16, at […]

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 […]

“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 […]