AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY SEMINAR
211 Dickinson Hall
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
SPRING
February 9, 2012: Andrew Needham, New York University
"Modernizing the Navajo: Termination, Economic Development, and the Metropolitan Southwest"
Commentator: Alison Isenberg, Department of History
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March 8, 2012: Stephen Tuck, Oxford University
"The Doubts of their Fathers: African American Religious Skepticism and the Struggle for Racial Equality During the Age of Jim Crow"
Commentator: Jeffrey Stout, Department of Religion
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April 5, 2012: Jeffrey A. Engel, Texas A & M University
"When the World Seemed New: American Foreign Policy in the Age of George H. W. Bush"
Comment: Kristopher Ramsay, Department of Politics
FALL
October 13, 2011: Joanne B. Freeman, Yale University
"'The Field of Blood': Congressional Violence in Antebellum America"
Commentator: Nolan McCarty, Department of Politics and Woodrow Wilson School
For a copy of Professor Freeman's paper, please contact: Blleavey@princeton.edu
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November 10, 2011: Eric Rauchway, University of California, Davis
"Bretton Woods and the Mistakes of the Past"
Commentator: Brad Simpson, Department of History and Woodrow Wilson School
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December 1, 2011: Kathleen Frydl, University of California, Berkeley
"Punishment and Power: the US State and the Modern Drug War"
Commentator: Paul Frymer, Department of Politics
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Organized by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian Zelizer
Sponsored by the Department of History, the Program in American Studies and the Woodrow Wilson School of International Politics