{"id":1434,"date":"2021-06-03T19:42:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T23:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphi\/?page_id=1434"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:39:21","slug":"past-seminar-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/aphi\/past-programming\/past-seminar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Past Seminars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id4\">\n<h2>2024-2025<\/h2>\n<p><strong>September 25- <\/strong>Sage Goodwin (Harvard) \u201c\u2018Riots\u2019 and Responsibility: Network Television News and Late 1960s Racial Politics\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 9- <\/strong>Betsy Herbin-Triant (Amherst) \u201cSlave Traders in the Family: A Black Historian Reckons with a Troubling Past\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 29-<\/strong>Simeon Man (UC-San Diego) \u201cAntimilitary Struggles for Genuine Security in the Pacific\u201d<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 26- <\/strong><span>Daniel Immerwahr (Northwestern University) <\/span><span>\u201c<\/span>This Too Shall Burn: America in the Wooden Age\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 19- <\/strong>Daniel Rowe (Oxford) \u201c\u2018The War they Wage is in the Market Place, not on the Battlefields\u2019: The US Developmental State in the Neoliberal Era&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 9- <\/strong>Bobby Cervantes (Harvard) &#8220;<em>Las Colonias<\/em>: An American History&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2023-2024<\/h2>\n<p><strong>September 20-<\/strong> Hannah Waits (Harvard), \u201cMissionary Positions: How American Evangelicals Learned to Love Global AIDS Work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 4-<\/strong> Jim Campbell, \u201cThe Gospel According to the Klan: The Rev. Edgar Ray Killen and the 1964 Mississippi Burning Murders\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 8-<\/strong> Beth Lew-Williams (Princeton) \u201c\u2019Race Laws and Chinese Segregation in the American West\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>January 31-<\/strong> Emilie Connolly (Brandeis) \u201cBanking on Removal: Indian Trust Fund Investments in Southern State Banks in the Era of Indian Removal\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 20-<\/strong> Dylan Gottlieb, Bentley University <span>\u201c<\/span><span>Making the Liberal Media: Journalism\u2019s Class Transformation Since the 1960s\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 17-<\/strong> Uta Balbier (Oxford), \u201c\u2019Safari for Souls\u2019: Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>2021-2022<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Seminars this semester (Fall) will return to Room 504 in the BU History Department<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 20\u00a0<\/strong>Natalia Mehlman Petrzela (The New School)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fit Nation: How America Embraced Exercise as the Government Abandoned it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 17\u00a0<\/strong>David Mayers (Boston University)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad before Pearl Harbor, 1935-1941&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 9<\/strong>\u00a0Corrine Field (University of Virginia)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Oldest Lecturer in the World!\u2019: Sojourner Truth, Racial Justice, and the Political Significance of Longevity in Nineteenth-Century America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 27<\/strong>\u00a0Megan Elias (Boston University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe His Guest: How Conrad Hilton Made Hotels Better than Homes\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"id4\">\n<h2><strong>2020-2021<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>NOTE: Spring 2021 events will be held virtually via Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>February 10 <\/strong>Chad Williams (Brandeis University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 24 <\/strong>Andrew David (Boston University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNelson Rockefeller\u2019s Dreams of Glory: The Quest for National Legitimacy via National Security, 1952-1960\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 31 <\/strong>Julia Irwin (University of South Florida)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Politics of Relief: Tracing the 20th Century Origins of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2019-2020<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>September 18 <\/strong>Nico Slate (Carnegie Mellon University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruth and Power: The Civil Rights Movement and Education\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 16 <\/strong>Aaron Lecklider (UMASS-Boston)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Socialism &amp; Sex Is What I Want\u2019:\u00a0Radical Women and Homosexuality in the 1930s and 40s\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>November 13 <\/strong>Joe Ryan-Hume (University of Glasgow)<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Lynching the Loony\u2019: Robert Bork and A Liberal Battle in a Conservative Age\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 4 <\/strong>Sarah Phillips (Boston University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Little Piggy Went to Market: Agricultural Abundance, Postwar Farm Policy,\u00a0and the Neoliberal Ascent\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 19 <\/strong>Marc Dollinger, San Francisco State University)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAntisemitism, Academic Freedom, and the University: A View From the Left and the Right\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 4 <\/strong>Sarah Miller-Davenport (University of Sheffield)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arts in a Time of Austerity: New York\u2019s Culture Industry as Solution to Economic Crisis\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 29 <\/strong>Corinne Field (University of Virginia)<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The Oldest Lecturer in the World!\u2019: Sojourner\u00a0Truth, Racial Justice, and the Political Significance of Longevity in Nineteenth-Century America<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2018-2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sept. 19<\/strong>\u2013John Rodrigue, Stone Hill College\u00a0\u201cThe Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oct. 24<\/strong>\u2013Oscar Winberg,\u00c5bo Akademi University (Turku, Finland), \u201cAdvocacy Groups, Archie Bunker, and Political Television in the 1970s\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov. 7<\/strong>\u2013Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia, \u201cBotany, the \u2018Surveilling\u2019 Sciences, and the Politics of American Empire: The United States in the Pacific, 1898-1930\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><strong>January 23.<\/strong> \u00a0Duco Hellema, University of Utrecht, \u201cReflections on\u00a0<\/span><span>The Global 1970s: Radicalism, Reform, and Crisis.<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"id4\">\n<p><strong>\u00a0Feb 27<\/strong>\u2013Matt Pressman, Seton Hall University, \u201cTabloid Journalism and Right-Wing Populism: The New York Daily News in the Mid-20th Century\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0March 20<\/strong>\u2013Margaret O\u2019Mara, University of Washington, \u201c\u2018The Computer Never Forgets\u2019: Lyndon Johnson, Sam Ervin, and the data privacy wars of the 1960s\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 10<\/strong> Nicholas Guyatt, University of Cambridge,\u00a0<span>\u201cThe pre-history of carceral segregation: Dartmoor Prison, 1813-1815\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2017-2018<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Oct. 18<\/strong> Heather Ann Thompson (University of Michigan),\u00a0\u201cSurveillance and the State-Building Origins of American Carcerality\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov 29,<\/strong> Brooke Blower (Boston University), \u201cHope and Betrayal in the Pacific War: The Making of an American Radio Correspondent in Southeast Asia\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan 31,<\/strong> Jayita Sarkar (Boston University), \u201cControlling the Global Atomic Marketplace: American Policy Against West European Nuclear Exports, 1974-1978\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 14<\/strong>, John Rodrigue (Stonehill College), \u201cThe Abolition of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Civil War\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 21,<\/strong> Tim Stewart-Winter (Rutgers-Newark),\u00a0<span>\u201c\u2018A Man Breaks\u2019:\u00a0Policing and Politics in the 1964 Walter Jenkins Gay Sex Scandal.<\/span><span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>April 18<\/strong>, David Atkinson (Purdue), \u201cImports, European Empires, and American Political Economy during the First World War\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"id4\">\n<h2><strong>2016-2017:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, September 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Duco Hellema (The University of Utrecht),\u00a0<em>The Radical Decade. A Global History of the 1970s<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 26, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wendy Kline (Purdue University),\u00a0\u201cThe Power and Politics of Countercultural Medicine\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicole Hemmer \u00a0(University of Virginia),\u00a0\u201cConservative Media, Liberal Bias, and the End of Objectivity\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, January 25<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robin Scheffler \u00a0(MIT),\u00a0\u201cMolecular Biologists Protest the War on Cancer: Biomedical Research and Setting the Limits of the State in the 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday,\u00a0March\u00a01<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lou Ferleger (BU), \u201cThe Anatomy of America\u2019s Ultimate Investments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday,\u00a0March 22<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ruth Lawlor (Cambridge),\u00a0\u201cSex with Girls: American GIs and Statutory Rape in the ETO\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Igo\u00a0(Vanderbilt), \u201cPrying Open the Politics of Privacy in Postwar America\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2015-2016:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Whitfield (Brandeis University), \u201cNorthern Intellectuals and Race: The First Decade of \u2018Dissent\u2019 Magazine, 1954-64.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 18, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Megan Black (Harvard University), \u201cA Far-Flung Interior: Territories, Strategic Minerals, and Equivocal Imperialism in the New Deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 3, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lily Geismer\u00a0(Claremont McKenna College), \u201cDoing Good: Liberal Uses of the Market to Help the Poor, from the War on Poverty through the Clinton Era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, March 16, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katherine Marino (Ohio State \/ American Academy of Arts\u00a0and Sciences),\u201dWomen\u2019s Suffrage in the Americas and the Transnational Popular Front\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 27, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jon Roberts (Boston University), \u201c\u2018The Citadel Itself\u2019: American Protestants\u2019 Defense of the Sanctity of Mind, 1820-1870\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2014-2015:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Wednesday, November 5, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Crespino (Emory University), \u201cWhen Black Jesus Came to Atlanta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, December 3, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gary Gerstle (Cambridge University), \u201cGoverning America: Public Power in America from the Revolution to the Present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 4, 2015 (RESCHEDULED)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), \u201cSeeking Words of Wisdom: Aphorism, Affirmation, and Authority in Late 20th-Century American Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 25, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kate Jewell (Fitchburg State University), \u201cLive from the Underground: The Rise and Fall of College Radio and the Politics of Selling Out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 1, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brent Cebul (American Academy of Arts and Sciences),\u00a0\u201cCreative Competition: Georgia Power, the TVA, and the Forging of a Rural Consumer Market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 22, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), \u201cSeeking Words of Wisdom: Aphorism, Affirmation, and Authority in Late 20th-Century American Culture.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2012-2013:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 10, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Seminar\u2013Christopher Loss (Vanderbilt University), \u201cFront and Center: Academic Expertise and Its Challengers in Post-45 America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 24, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Election Special with Linda Killian, Wilson Center, \u201cThe Swing Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, November 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Seminar\u2013Robert Self (Brown University), \u201c\u201dA Strange but Righteous Power\u201d: Cultural Politics in the Age of Economic Decline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, December 5, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Seminar\u2013Matthew Lassiter (University of Michigan),\u201cFrom \u2018Generation Gap\u2019 to \u2018Just Say No\u2019: Suburban Politics and the War on Drugs from the 1960s to the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, January 23, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Seminar\u2013Benjamin Park, Cambridge University, \u201cGrounding Nationalism: The America(s) of Benjamin Rush, Noah Webster, and Pierce Butler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, February 13, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI seminar\u2013Ellie Shermer (Loyola University), \u201cThe Business of Education: State Research Universities\u2019 Public-Private Origins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, April 24, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>APHI Seminar\u2013Leah Wright (Wesleyan University), \u201cThe Time of the Black Elephant Has Come\u201d: Bill Brock, Black Republicans, and the Rise of Alternative Solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLUS TWO LANDMARKS EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, October 17, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7:00PM Photonics Building, LANDMARKS: The Cuban Missile Crisis after 50 Years with Jonathan Hansen (Harvard), Renata Keller (BU), and Jim Rasenberger (author of The Brilliant Disaster)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, March 19, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7:00PM, LANDMARKS: The Legacy of Martin Luther King with David Chappell (University of Oklahoma)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2011-2012:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>September<\/strong><strong>\u00a07, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Snyder, University College, London \u201cPerhaps Without You, Our Revolution Would Not Be\u201d: Transnational Human Rights Activism and the End of the Cold War<\/p>\n<p><strong>October 12, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Katherine Rye Jewell, Fitchburg State University \u201cEnding the New South: The Southern States Industrial Council and the New Right, 1945-1964\u2033<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nov 30, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Asa McKercher, Cambridge University, \u201cCongress and Castro\u2019s Cuba: The Early Years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan 25, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jay Sexton, Oxford University, \u201cWilliam H. Seward in the World\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>February 8, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clayton Howard, Holy Cross \u201cHousing and Baby Booms: Sexuality and Suburbia in the Postwar San Francisco Bay Area\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>March 7, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca A. Rix, Princeton University, \u201cThe Education of Louis Brandeis: His Changing Views Of The Franchise, 1890-1925\u2033<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 4, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Charles Romney, University of Arkansas, Little Rock \u201cHabeas Corpus, Pacific Migrants, and the Colonial State in Hawai\u2019i, 1900-1920\u2033<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"id6\">\n<h2><strong>2010-2011:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick, \u201cOnly Connect: Expanding the Spatial Borders of Early American History \u2013 the Fashion for Atlantic History and Continental History\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Connolly, Johns Hopkins University, \u201cOf Landlords and Liberalism: Slum Profits and the America of Luther Brooks\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olivia Sohns, Cambridge University, \u201cLyndon Johnson and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Daly, Boston University, \u201cCovering America: \u201cThe Rise and Fall of Traditional Journalism,1980-2010\u2033<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Whitfield, Brandeis University, \u201cNixon and the Jews\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beverly Gage, Yale University, \u201cG-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the American Century\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Randall Stephens, Eastern Nazarene University, \u201cRevising America\u2019s Christian History: The Religious Politics of America\u2019s Past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, San Diego State University, \u201cAlexander Hamilton and the Thirteen Countries: Monarchy, Empire, and the Alternatives\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kristal Enter, Cambridge University, \u201cFederal Intervention and University Integration, 1945-1968\u2033<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2009-2010:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis \u201cMorrill\u2019s Acts: Education, Migration, Reconstruction?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suzanna Reiss, University of Hawaii, \u201c\u2019A Most Important Weapon of Economic Warfare\u2019: WWII, Pharmaceuticals, and the Logic of International Drug Control\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Pawel, Journalist and Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, \u201cThe Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez\u2019s United Farm Workers Movement<\/p>\n<p>Ruth Martin, Cambridge University, \u201cDefending the Unpopular: The Continuing Impact of Anti-Communism in the American Civil Liberties Union\u2019s Due Process Campaign, 1967-77<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Soffer, NYU Polytechnic Institute, \u201cAdapting to Neoliberalism: Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dan Amsterdam, Univ. of Pennsylvania and AAAS Fellow, \u201cThe Roaring Metropolis: Business, Civic Welfare, and State Expansion in 1920s America\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Celeste-Marie Bernier, University of Nottingham (UK), \u201cA \u2018Work of Art?\u2019: Frederick Douglass, Slave Heroism and the Transatlantic Imagination\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amy Renton, Cambridge University (UK), \u201cPhysical Disability and its Discourse in the the Era of the American Revolution\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2008-2009:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Dan Williams, University of West Georgia, \u201cHow Did the GOP Become \u2018God\u2019s Own Party\u2019?: Evangelical Pastors, Republican Politicians, and the Making of America\u2019s Christian Right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James T. Campbell, Stanford University, \u201cBroadcasting the New South Africa and Other Adventures in the Americanization of South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gretchen Heefner, Yale University, \u201cThe Radical Plains: Antinuclear Protest, the Reagan Revolution and the Double Life of Prairie Populism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sam James, Cambridge University, Brendan McConville, Boston University<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Deal With the Devil: Ideology, Diplomacy, and the Dilemmas of History in Revolutionary America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian Balogh, University of Virginia, \u201cGovernment Out of Sight: The Mystery of National Authority in Nineteenth Century America\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emily Floeck, Cambridge University, \u201cInstitutionalizing the Sino-American Bilateral Relationship under Ford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meg Jacobs, MIT and Julian Zelizer, Princeton University, \u201cThe Reagan Revolution: A Reconsideration\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2007-2008:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Bonnie Miller, U-Mass Boston, \u201cThe Early Weeks of the Spanish-American War: Visual Depictions of Hawaiian Annexation and the Attraction of Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cathie Martin, Boston University, Radcliffe Institute, \u201cThe Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems and State Structures in the Age of Innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen Dalton, Boston University, \u201cNighthawks in 1942: Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and Their Friends William and Caroline Phillips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clemens H\u00e4usler, Cambridge University, \u201cAtlantic Conversations in a Confident Age: Social Policy Exchanges Between American Liberals, British Labourites and German Social Democrats in the 1960\u2032s and early 1970\u2032s.<\/p>\n<p>Lily Geismer, University of Michigan, \u201cSuburban Civil Rights: Fair Housing, Voluntary Busing and Grassroots Liberalism in Postwar Massachusetts\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Michael Vorenberg, Brown University, \u201cCivil War Era State-Building: The Human Cost\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robert Self, Brown University, \u201cSexual Citizenship and the Privacy Quandary in Sixties and Seventies America\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlotte Carrington, Cambridge University, \u201cSecular Dissent in Seventeenth-Century New England\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>2006-2007:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>David Quigley, Boston College, \u201cGrant\u2019s World Tour: An American Abroad at Reconstruction\u2019s End\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Bacevich, Boston University, \u201cElusive Bargain: The Pattern of U.S. Civil-Military Relations since 1945\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Louis Hyman, Harvard University, \u201cDiscovering Consumer Credit: Commercial Banks, Personal Loan Departments and The Federal Housing Administration\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bethany Moreton, Bowdoin College, \u201cSix Flags over Capitalism: Wal-Mart, Students in Free Enterprise, and the Conservative Ascendancy, 1976-1994.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marty Rojas, University of Rhode Island, \u201cCodifying Friendship: The Plan of treaties 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