Announcing the Spring 2017 Washington History Seminar Schedule
We are delighted to announce the schedule for the spring season of the Washington History Seminar. Spring 2017 offers an exciting lineup of speakers who will be sure to sustain the seminar’s reputation as one of Washington D.C.’s most intellectually vibrant venues for thinking about the past and establishing its relevance to the present.
The Woodrow Wilson Center and the National History Center are delighted to announce the schedule for the spring season of the Washington History Seminar. Spring 2017 offers an exciting lineup of speakers who will be sure to sustain the seminar’s reputation as one of Washington D.C.’s most intellectually vibrant venues for thinking about the past and establishing its relevance to the present. Each week the seminar offers fresh perspectives on an important historical topic, bringing distinguished senior scholars, talented young historians, and other inquiring minds to talk about their recent research and reveal their latest discoveries.
January 23: Thomas Blanton (National Security Archive) and Svetlana Savranskaya (National Security Archive), The Last Superpower Summits
January 30: Marcia Chatelain (Georgetown University) on “Fast Food, Civil Rights: McDonald’s and Black America in the Post-King Years”
February 6: Marc Levinson (independent scholar) on An Extraordinary Time: The end of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
February 13: Edward Balleisen (Duke University) on Fraud: From Barnum to Madoff
February 20: President's Day: No Seminar
February 27: Timothy Breen (Northwestern University) on An Appeal to Heaven
March 6: Walter A. McDougall (The University of Pennsylvania) on The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
March 13: Julia Young (The Catholic University of America) on Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War
March 20: Luis Campos (University of New Mexico) on Radium and the Secret of Life
March 27: Jenna Weissman Joselit (The George Washington University) on Set in Stone: America's Embrace of the Ten Commandments
April 3: Michael Kazin (Georgetown University) on War against War: The Rise, Defeat, and Legacy of the Peace Movement in America, 1914-1918
April 10: Passover: No Seminar
April 17: Courtney Fullilove (Wesleyan University) on The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
April 24: Frank Settle (Washington and Lee University) on General George C. Marshall and the Atomic Bomb
May 1: Alice Kaplan (Yale University) on Looking for a Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
May 8: Gregg Brazinsky (George Washington University) on Winning the Third World: Sino-American Competition during the Cold War
May 15: Jason Parker (Texas A&M) on Hearts, Minds, Voice: U.S. Cold War Diplomacy and the Formation of the Third World
Mondays 4:00pm-5:30pm
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor Moynihan Boardroom
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