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 […]

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States' founding, the Center for Presidential History, in conjunction with the George W. Bush Presidential Library, is hosting a talk by Amy S. Greenberg from Penn State University. On February 12th, Amy Greenberg (Penn State University) joins the CPH to discuss the political use of mineral spring […]

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 […]

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. […]