The History and Public Policy Program and the National History Center are pleased to announce the Spring 2022 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.
January 24
Embattled Europe: A Progressive Alternative with Konrad Jarausch
(video available)
January 31
Cuba: An American History with Ada Ferrer
(video available)
February 7
Uncertain Allies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Threat of a United Europe with Klaus Larres
(video available)
February 28
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America with Nancy Foner
March 7
“History, Disrupted”: How Social Media and the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past with Jason Steinhauer
March 14
Undoing the Liberal World Order: Progressive Ideals and Political Realities Since World War with Leon Fink
March 21
Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness with Elizabeth Samet
March 28
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World with Scott Reynolds Nelson
April 4
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Textiles, Law, and Commerce in the Nineteenth-Century United States with Laura Edwards
April 11
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era with Gary Gerstle
April 18
Counterterrorism between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937 with Mary Barton
April 25
Israel's Moment: International Support for and Opposition to Establishing the Jewish State, 1945–1949 with Jeffrey Herf
May 2
The New Atlantic Order with Patrick O. Cohrs
May 9
The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville with Olivier Zunz
May 23
Panel on the Vietnam War with Shawn McHale, Christopher Goscha, and George Veith
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