• Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution

    Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

    Professor Ronald Angelo Johnson (Baylor University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book Entangled Alliances: Racialized Freedom and Atlantic Diplomacy During the American Revolution. In Entangled Alliances Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinating story of American patriots and rebels from Saint-Domingue (later Haiti) allying against European tyranny. The book is a reinterpretation of […]

  • The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America

    Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

    Professor and former CPH Postdoctoral Fellow Paul M. Renfro (Florida State University) joins the CPH to discuss his new book The Life and Death of Ryan White: AIDS and Inequality in America. This event will be hosted by the Center for Presidential History along with the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute and the SMU Women and Gender […]

  • Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State

    Dallas Hall 306 (McCord Auditorium) 3225 University Blvd, Dallas, TX, United States

    Professor Katherine C. Epstein (Rutgers University-Camden) joins the CPH to speak about her new book Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State.  At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. […]