The History and Public Policy Program and the American Historical Association are pleased to announce the Fall 2023 Washington History Seminar lineup. All sessions take place on Zoom webinar from 4–5:30pm ET unless otherwise noted. Recordings of past sessions are available through the links after they occur.
The Fall 2023 Washington History Seminar Lineup
Thursday September 14, (The Wm. Roger Louis Lecture), “Homelands: A Personal History of Europe” by Timothy Garton Ash
(video available)
Monday September 18, “Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust” by Andrew Port
(video available)
Thursday September 28, “The Age of Interconnection: A Global History of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century” by Jonathan Sperber
(video available)
Monday October 2, “Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas” by Alan Bollard
(video available)
Thursday October 12, “Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights” by Samuel Freedman
(video available)
Monday October 16, “Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper” by Brooke Blower
(video available)
Monday October 23, “Dreams for a Decade: International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War” by Stephanie Freeman
(video available)
Monday October 30, “An Army Afire: How the US Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era” by Beth Bailey
(video available)
Monday November 13, “France on Trial: The Case of Marshall Petain” by Julian Jackson
(video available)
Monday November 27, “The Nationalist Dilemma: A Global History of Economic Nationalism, 1776–Present” by Marvin Suesse
(video available)
Monday December 4, “Forgotten Warriors: The Long History of Women in Combat” by Sarah Percy
(video available)
Monday December 11, “Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World” by Mattias Fibiger
(video available)
Monday December 18, “Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World” by Erik Scott
(video available)
The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is organized jointly by the American Historical Association and the Woodrow Wilson Center's History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks its anonymous individual donors and institutional partner (the George Washington University History Department) for their continued support.
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