{"id":5508,"date":"2024-05-03T15:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T19:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/events\/aha-online\/washington-history-seminar\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:29:20","slug":"washington-history-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/events\/aha-online\/washington-history-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington History Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington History Seminar series is held weekly on Mondays (unless otherwise noted) during the Fall and Spring academic semesters. If you have questions about the seminars, please email us at <a href=\"mailto:ahaonline@historians.org\">ahaonline@historians.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Spring 2025 Semester<\/h3>\n<p>All seminars will be held on Mondays from 4\u20135:30 p.m. ET unless otherwise noted. Registration information will be circulated for each event two weeks in advance of the webinar.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"depth-0\">\n<li><strong>January 13:<\/strong> Isaac Stanley-Becker<br \/>\n<em>Europe without Borders: A History<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>January 27:<\/strong> Marlene Daut<br \/>\n<em>The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>February 3: <\/strong>Maurice Casey<br \/>\n<em>Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism&#8217;s Forgotten Radicals<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>February 10:<\/strong> Elyse Graham<br \/>\n<em>Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 3:<\/strong> Michael David-Fox<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_r7BGCT2pR5eBFZ9KW5oWEw\"><em>Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 10:<\/strong> Samuel J. Hirst<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_wovDFST8SE-jcZev5vB1vw\"><em>Against the Liberal Order: The Soviet Union, Turkey, and Statist Internationalism, 1919-1939<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 17:<\/strong> Richard Overy\u00a0<strong>**3\u20134:30 p.m.**<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_VYUN-fWjTlGYhePLdZcBog\"><em>Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 24: <\/strong>Laura Hobson Faure<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_A8-K_RYxQm-na9JEBLcxTQ\"><em>Who Will Rescue Us? The Story of the Jewish Children who Fled to France and America During the Holocaust<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>March 31: <\/strong>Kornel Chang<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN__t4yVPkqTwi9p7oHMcmBrg\"><em>A Fractured Liberation: Korea under US Occupation<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>April 7:<\/strong> Sandrine Kott<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_hS3_CCOeT4O_CTvWAB_LEw\"><em>A World More Equal: An Internationalist Perspective on the Cold War<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>April 21:<\/strong> Erin O&#8217;Halloran<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_uObYY4XtQzGxwEz_dkjuYw\"><em>East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World between the Wars<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>April 28:<\/strong> Daniela Richterova<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_20U0DpJvTsiy8A4tvuf9Pg\"><em>Watching the Jackals: Prague&#8217;s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>May 5:<\/strong> David Commins<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_g0noQTh1R9OxiQBg2_5OTg\"><em>Saudi Arabia: A Modern History<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>May 12:<\/strong> Gretchen Heefner<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_ZDCHJveNTkiQxZCCIAeCGA\"><em>Sand, Snow, and Stardust: How US Military Engineers Conquered Extreme Environments<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Recordings<\/h3>\n<p>Recordings of past events are posted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCBLW7qEakfJxAgXSi_xTcuA\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington History Seminar YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?si=btmXBVglvO0csvix&amp;list=PLtafkoYGge2IH1mdawpjEjrX5QqYFNgf4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington History Seminar series is held weekly on Mondays (unless otherwise noted) during the Fall and Spring academic semesters.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5694,"parent":2178,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"The Washington History Seminar series is held weekly on Mondays (unless otherwise noted) during the Fall and Spring academic semesters.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5508","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","has-featured-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95152,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5508\/revisions\/95152"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}