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HISTORY SYMPOSIUM SERIES

PAST EVENTS

2012

"Economy and Security in the 21st Century" 
 Madeleine K. Albright, Former Secretary of State

2011

"The Nuclear Promise:  Global Consequences of an American Dream"
Jacob Hamblin, Oregon State University

"Daniel Ellsberg Speaks:  The Pentagon Papers Forty Years Later

2010

"Enemies Within:  The Conspiracy Culture of Modern America"
Robert Goldberg, University of Utah

"America's Future in the Middle East:  What is Obama to Do?"
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering

2009

"The Greatest Generation in A Good War?:  A New Look at Wartime America"
Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado, Boulder

“Hearts and Minds: Counterinsurgency from Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan”
Marilyn B. Young, New York University

“The Holocaust: Memories of a Survivor”
George Lucius Salton (Lucek Salzman)

“Abraham Lincoln and the Crisis of the Republic”
Steven D. Engle, Florida Atlantic University

 “Winning While Losing?: The Conservative Movement and Civil Rights during the Reagan Years”
Mary Frances Berry, University of Pennsylvania

“The Great Divide?: Race and Partisanship after the Civil Rights Movement”
John D. Skrentny, University of California at San Diego

"A Peculiar Partnership: Egalitarianism and Free-Market Conservatism in the United States and the World since the 1970s."  
Thomas Borstelmann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

“Barack Obama: ‘Turning the Page’ on the Conservative Era in American Politics”
Ronald W. Walters, University of Maryland

 “Rebuilding Institutions and Redefining Issues: The Reagan Justice Department and Civil Rights”
Richard L. Pacelle, Jr., Georgia Southern University

“In the Shadow of Ronald Reagan: Civil Rights Policy Making in the Clinton Administration”
Robert C. Smith, San Francisco State University   

“Old Vinegar in a New Bottle: Vote Denial in the 2000 Presidential Election and Beyond”
Charles L. Zelden, Nova Southeastern University

2008

“Harry S. Truman, the Bomb, and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy,”
Wilson D. Miscamble, University of Notre Dame

“The First Lady of the Press Speaks on Women, Washington, and the War”
Helen Thomas

"Questioning Slavery and Accepting Africa: Dissidence, Tolerance, and Syncretism in the Iberian Atlantic World"
Stuart B. Schwartz, Yale University

“The Other Side of the Italian Renaissance: Sin and Social Deviance in the Popular Preaching of Bernardino of Siena.”
Franco Mormando, Boston University

“The Confucian Scholar Zhu Xi’s {1130-1200} Cosmology: How Modern is the School of the Dao ( ??)?”
John Berthrong, Boston University

“How Racism Became Respectable in Nazi Germany”
Claudia Koonz, Duke University

“Transportation and the Creation of an Integrated European Economy”
Richard Vahrenkamp, University of Kassel

“Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire”
Thomas W. Zeiler, University of Colorado at Boulder

“The United States and Iraq: Past and Future”
Douglas Little, Clark University

"Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Middle East and the Caucasus"
Mark Kramer, Harvard University

2007

“Revisiting the Jazz Age”
Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University

“Selling War in a Media Age”
David Halberstam

“Selling the New Empire: The War of 1898 and the Dawn of the American Century”
George C. Herring, University of Kentucky

“War and the Health of the State:   The U.S. Government and the Communications Revolution during World War I”
Emily S. Rosenberg, University of California at Irvine

“Franklin Roosevelt and American Public Opinion During World War II”
Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont

“The Hard Sell: Korea”
Marilyn B. Young, New York University

“Cementing Consensus in the Cold War”
Robert D. Schulzinger, University of Colorado at Boulder

“Eisenhower’s Dilemma:   Talking Peace and Waging Cold War after Stalin’s Death”
Kenneth Osgood, Florida Atlantic University

"‘We Need to Get a Better Story to the American People’:   Johnson, Nixon, and the Vietnam War on Television”
Chester Pach , Ohio University

“Selling Star Wars:   Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative”
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin at Madison

“The Ministry of Fear: Selling the Iraq Wars”
 Lloyd C. Gardner, Rutgers University

"Ladakh: The Last Shangri-La or Globalization's Last Victim?"”
Kaushik Bagchi, Goucher College

“Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China"
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, University of Wisconsin at Madison

2006

"The Nazis and Dixie:  African Americans, Jewish Americans, and Fascism, 1933-1939"
Glenda Gilmore, Yale University

“The Myth That China Has No Creation Myth”
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

“Why Confucius Eschewed Religion” 
Moss Roberts, New York University

2005

“Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming: Lessons of Vietnam Applied to the Iraq War”
Jonathan Shay

“Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman and the Surrender of Japan”
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, University of California at Santa Barbara

“Religion and Politics: An American Tradition”
David Goldfield, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Is Iraq Vietnam?”
Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University

“This Worldly Immortality in Ancient China”
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

“Cuba, Fernando Ortiz, and Caribbean Studies”
Enrico Mario Santi, University of Kentucky

2004

"Blind Spot: Secret History of U.S. Counterterrorisim"
Timothy Naftali, Director of the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library

2003

“Reagan, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War”
Robert J. McMahon, The Ohio State University