Mississippi State University professor Joseph M. Thompson joins the CPH to discuss his new book Cold War Country: How Nashville's Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism. In his book, Thompson illuminates the connections between country music and the military during the Cold War. This readable history reveals how country music's Nashville-based […]

Professor Sheyda Jahanbani (Kansas University) joins the CPH to speak about her new book The Poverty of the World: Rediscovering the Poor at Home and Abroad, 1941-1968 which was the winner of the 2024 CPH Book Prize Award. Her book examines the origins and impacts of the war on poverty, revealing connections between U.S. domestic and foreign […]

Professor Benjamin Heber Johnson (Loyola University Chicago) joins the CPH and the Clements Center for Southwest Studies to speak about his upcoming book Texas: An American History. His book is an exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today. This event will be […]

2022 MacArthur Fellow and Professor Monica Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) joins the CPH alongside the Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute's Scott Hawkins Lecture Fund to talk about her book The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History. In her book, Kim draws on a wealth of archival evidence and her own interviews to analyze the […]

Professor Emily Conroy-Krutz (Michigan State University) joins the CPH to discuss her new book Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations. This event will be hosted by the Center for Presidential History and The George W. Bush Presidential Library. Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the […]