October 21: Gretchen Heefner presents: Sand, Snow, and Stardust
On Tuesday October 21st at 12:30pm, the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies welcomes Northeastern University’s Gretchen Heefner to discuss her latest book: Sand, Snow and Stardust. Deserts, the Arctic, outer space—these extreme environments are often seen as inhospitable places at the edges of our maps. But from the 1940s through the 1960s, spurred by the […]
APHI Grad Conference CFP now available!
The 2017 APHI Graduate Student Conference Call for Papers is now available. Take a look and please encourage any grad students you might know to apply! cfp-2017-aphi-grad-conference
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 […]